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H3T Bed Rack

cdarveaux

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After my experience at Marble Falls, I am thinking about some expedition stuff. Some Jeep guys were talking about a 2 week trip in Colorado in the summer and I think it would be cool if I had a bed rack and put a roof top tent on top of that and have all of my other equipment in the bed. I was wondering if any other T owners were looking into this, and if we could make up some prototypes.
 

Bigunit

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Yes, I bought TXH3T's rack and roof-top tent. I have a picture of the original designers' drawing for the rack that contains the tube angles for the rack that I can either post or send to cdarveaux.
 

Bigunit

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Here's the one I bought off of TXH3T





The bed rack was custom built by 2 members of Expedition Portal in Prescott, AZ. It was originally made for a Sierra Expeditions Tacoma 5' short-bed (for the 2004 and older models), and is 62" long by 60" wide but just happened to fit the bed of the T perfectly with just some very minor modifications to the bed mounts themselves that were fabbed by its previous owner, TXH3T.

The rack bolts into the T's bed rail system/bed by way of 4 bolts, which go into 3/8" unistrut/superstrut spring nuts that I bought at Home Depot - they fit pefectly within the T's bed rail system (no drilling required).




The rack has a bed-bar mount (where you see the shovel mounted) that also has 2 threaded bolts/studs to mount a Hi-Lift jack. The bed-bar mount was fabricated by Fabwerx and also has 2 custom-made aluminum tube C clamp mounts adapted for the Quick-Fist straps to hold the shovel.

The bed rack is notched out to accommodate the weld points of the bed-bar to the bed rack's flat rails which sit on top of the T's bed caps. The bed rack is spaced rear of the cab with enough room to accommodate 2 jerry cans snug so that they don't move at all (or other equipment).

IMG_1328.jpg

 
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cdarveaux

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Here's the one I bought off of TXH3T





The bed rack was custom built by 2 members of Expedition Portal in Prescott, AZ. It was originally made for a Sierra Expeditions Tacoma 5' short-bed (for the 2004 and older models), and is 62" long by 60" wide but just happened to fit the bed of the T perfectly with just some very minor modifications to the bed mounts themselves that were fabbed by its previous owner, TXH3T.

The rack bolts into the T's bed rail system/bed by way of 4 bolts, which go into 3/8" unistrut/superstrut spring nuts that I bought at Home Depot - they fit pefectly within the T's bed rail system (no drilling required).




The rack has a bed-bar mount (where you see the shovel mounted) that also has 2 threaded bolts/studs to mount a Hi-Lift jack. The bed-bar mount was fabricated by Fabwerx and also has 2 custom-made aluminum tube C clamp mounts adapted for the Quick-Fist straps to hold the shovel.

The bed rack is notched out to accommodate the weld points of the bed-bar to the bed rack's flat rails which sit on top of the T's bed caps. The bed rack is spaced rear of the cab with enough room to accommodate 2 jerry cans snug so that they don't move at all (or other equipment).

IMG_1328.jpg


I really like that design. I kinda want to duplicate it
 

Bigunit

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Let me know if you need better or close-up pics of any part of the rack.

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Bigunit

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Will do but the pics will have to wait until I get from Moab, as this week is really busy at work trying to make room to take some days off next week & I leave for Moab on Saturday.
 
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