A few weeks back, I scored a new-in-box set of bed bars for a variety of trucks. Guy was selling his newly purchased $60k+ Tacoma since he ended up hating it which meant a great deal on this set ($200).
Anyway, it was missing some type of hardware for attaching to the truck itself.
I have no use for this setup until next year when we decide to do Rubicon anyway but my friend from Nevada recently asked if I can make him some mounts. That prompted me to use my truck as a mock-up (we have the same truck) since I need those mounting brackets made, as well as creating the mounts needed.
In the above picture, the long Z shaped mounts on the right sit on the bedside and require being attached to the bed's interior bed rail.
Here's the bracket I made to tie it all in.
The two holes on the bottom are what I came up with for running bolts to the T-nuts that go into the rail. Scored on Amazon.
The top hole I decided should carry a carriage bolt since it would be extremely hard to get a nut on the inside for running a bolt through. Seems my CAD work is on point
And here she is.
After this I mocked it up again to determine the length bolt I need since I was using hardware I had laying around. Ordered a 5/16 - 18 bolt at 5/8" long. And since the Z shaped rail stretches across the entire bedside, I opted to create 6 mounting brackets which will allow the rail to attach at the front, center, and rear of the bed.
For my friend since he only has two crossbars, I'm only making 4 mounts but also utilizing 2 holes each to mount to the bed.
Obligatory action shots.
She looks good!
The top hole will be used to mount his bars to the brackets since he simply wants his bars to sit squarely on top of the brackets. All that's left is for him to weld a plate with a nut on the backside to the ends of his bars.
Back to fulfilling orders! I made this in-between since the other stuff are repeats of things I've made and posted before.
