Mobtown Offroad Full Bolt On Bed Bars , 2005-2015 Tacoma

Hi Guys,

I've received my bars today and stated the installation.
Quickly realized that the Truxedo would need to be hacked to fit. Can anyone confirm this and show me what they did ?

My best guess would be to cut the vertical plate that is part of the Truxedo rail at the Bars location so it will sit on the bed properly.

Best regards,

 

This is a new one. I haven't seen this style rail for the covers yet. Can you take a pic from the sides of our upright brackets where the rail of your cover is against?

 

Here are a few pictures, hard towels show it properly.

 

Here is a YouTube video showing how it made and installed.

https://youtu.be/e_o2lqzRsLA

 

@jowybyo

How similar was your cover? We didn't cut yours at all.

 

Pretty different. My Truxedo sat on the top of the bed rail, not to the inside of it.

 

Guess that's my face right now

 

Trying to figure out if this will work with bakflip mx4. Been looking for something that is modular. Love the design, and would like to run an rtt without having to remove my cover.

 

Send me photos of how the cover is attached to the truck and I can verify it for you.

 

Hi Guys,

I ain't got a fix for that so i had to figure it out.
The rails for my Truxedo feature a "L" shape protruding aluminum part which align the cover and seal it's side. This portion had to be cut where the bars brackets are located. (yes, no longer allowed to change their location after that)



After that, to retain some sealing i applied strips of the foam tape provided by Mobtown offroad in the kit directly to the side of the bed and assembled the truxedo rails pushing onto that foam. I think it should seal deceltly...



All the pictures i took are on Google Drive: Mobtown Offroad - 2005-2017 Toyota Tacoma Bed Bars

 

You couldn't have just pushed it up tight against the brackets and let the seal form around them? Then you could just fill in any little remaining gap with weather stripping?

 

The seal was not working that way, pushing it down, the brackets raised the rails too much which leaved a gap of around 1/8"

 

@dialfonzo How do those bikes ride up there? Ive been looking at doing something similar. What bike mounts are those? Thanks

 

The overall assembly is very strong, almost no movement.
My racks are from SportRack, I got them used but here is the model :

http://www.sportrack.com/p/upshift?pp=24

 

Hi There,

Here is a quick design i made to add some branding plates to my bed bars since they deserve to be named...

Will be adding some white paint in the engraving area..!

 

Very cool. Can't chance you can email the line work file to us?

 

He already did. He sent it to me. I haven't had a chance to look at it

 

Sweet.

 

I did some changes since my email .. I'll send them tomorrow.