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Cali Raised bed stiffner and OEM bed extender

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by TacomaBlu, Oct 27, 2018.

  1. Oct 27, 2018 at 11:33 AM
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    TacomaBlu

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    Searched and only found TC stiffner with and OEM bed exteder w/mods to the bed ext.

    Anyone pair a bed extender with the Cali-Raised?

    Thx!
     
  2. Oct 27, 2018 at 1:13 PM
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    PacoDevo

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    Probably the same general principal.
     
  3. Oct 27, 2018 at 10:25 PM
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    Yes. I made my own L brackets cut to fit using steel material from Home Depot and then mounted the bed extender brackets to those. I also had to cut the ends of each tube on the bed extender that slid into each other so that the extender could be made narrower. I can shoot you some pics tomorrow if you are interested.
     
  4. Feb 21, 2019 at 8:24 PM
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    @Volksparts , I just received my Cali Raised bed stiffners and would like to know how you modified your bed extender to work with these. Pictures would be great.
     
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  5. Feb 21, 2019 at 8:41 PM
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    I will take pics tomorrow
     
  6. Feb 21, 2019 at 8:44 PM
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  7. Mar 27, 2019 at 4:13 PM
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    Some pictures of the bed stiffeners with tail gate extender that I fabricated today.


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  8. Mar 27, 2019 at 4:18 PM
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    Wait did you make your own bed stiffeners also? Sweet dude.
     
  9. Mar 27, 2019 at 4:23 PM
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    Yes I did. I had to trim the bed extender also.

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  10. Mar 27, 2019 at 4:32 PM
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    I mounted the extender, then saw this post. I'll be hauling my dirt bikes hundreds of miles every weekend and didn't want the bed sides flopping around on my 2019 dclb taco. I looked these up and just decided to build my own for the price they wanted, I would also still have to modified them. I have access to powder coating so that's a bonus.
     
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  11. Mar 28, 2019 at 4:57 AM
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    Picture of the installed nut-serts.

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