bed stake pockets

Bend over and he will show you!

 

Door ding...... think do not understand the concept, tying the cornores together, how?.
Have no idea what OSD is that you suggest I attach to the top of the exsisting bed rail covers......Trailer not really an option, no place for it when not in use........Thanx, Stu

 

He means make a 3 sided box , that basically raises the sides of the bed and attach it by way of the bed rails

OSB is Oriented Strand Board , a sheet good similar to plywood but made out of chips rather than veneers , we call it Beaver Puke here

 

Beaver Puke! That is a good one.

 

Does anyone think those pocket holes would be sturdy enough to use a stake hole mount for a Firestik antenna? I'm mounting a 4' FS-648 NGP antenna and was considering cutting a hole in the plastic bed rail cap to access the stake hole. then would just run the coax under the truck to the rubber gasket under the passenger seat - then to the dash but blah blah. Heres what the mount looks like:

 

Thanks for the help.

 

This is my question, too. Tankjockey, where did you find that mount? And do they make one with NMO threads? I'm not allowed to drill holes in the hullmetal, but … nobody said anything about cutting the bedliner! XD

 

Anybody think you could effectively use a no-ground-plane antenna to those locations? NMO mounts, perhaps? Now I’m thinking less of fancy clamp-on things, and more just drilling for a bog-standard NMO cable. Hoooray for being indecisive!

 

Thanks for this!! I have been trying to figure this out this for almost three years since I got the truck, so I could remove them and touch up some paint issues at outside edges of the rails where a topper or bed cover previously caused wear. I can see them if I lift the a little at the rear edges front and back on each side; a rust line where they rubbed through the paint.