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The Side Gear panels arrived today..

I drew up a little mounting tab. these will be used with the 80/20 extrusion on the rack(s), to help secure zip ties for bundling future wiring for both my roof rack and the bed rack. they will be laser cut from 18 gauge (.040) Aluminum Did a rough cardboard mockup of the zip tie tabs. but...

Got the bed brackets bent up today.... Discovered a few minor adjustments that will likely get done at final assembly. I may need to extend the bolt slots a bit. Top of the bracket is a hair longer than I would like, once the bed bars are welded on I may trim this a bit to keep...

it is an online shop that does laser cutting and it was made from Cold rolled steel 16 gauge

would need to measure and figure out how to mount them. Right now All I have is my Tacoma, and an old Jeep Cherokee.

no laser cutter, that is outsourced. but I did the design in inventor 2020 for both this and the bed rack

it was cheaper for me to make my own than buy one. I am thinking about offering them for sale if there is enough interest to help drive the unit cost down a bit.

A package showed up today from the laser cutter, Phase 1 brackets and tabs.

A grid to mount standard Molle Pouches which there is just about one for anything you can imagine. and the holes are for quickfist or whatever else you can think of. basically a frame work for origination of storage

A rough design of version one of a bed rack that I am working on

A little something I put together for the front of the truck bed. Back from the laser cutter, from design to reality less than 6 days Had to slot the mounting holes since My measurements was off by about 1 cm. I also updated the cad model to put a bit of a radius in at the bottom corners

where did you get the detent springs?

Airing down tires for traction is an old trick that is used by many looking to gain traction. Airing down each tire on its own, and then airing it back up can be faster with a 4 way setup. I recently made this setup based on the following video. with a slight change, I made the Gauge and...

Well, we found a mount that will fit In south texas at a pilot truck stop. Before we crossed over to mexico for the day. It was a day trip for some food and shopping. Nothing real exciting, but we will be heading back for Christmas eve as well.

I picked up the the DMM, Dash top Multi Mount from The Taco Garage So that I can use 1" ram ball mounts . The mount has 6 holes spaced 1" apart The top mounting plate, has a nice finish, and fits the space perfectly. I used several binder clips as clamps, this worked well, but did require...

Had a bit of a score yesterday... A coworker had several of the MWC on his work truck. When I asked him about them, his reply was "Do you want some?" it took me about 2 seconds to ask How many can I get? and after he ask how many would you Like, I then asked if I could get 4 of them. Brought...

hopefully you was onsite to kill the line out before they jumped off the truck, or did it trip the OCR.

Wilson has changed names they are now WeBoost, here is the link to the current model of the one I have 4G-M. They also have units for a fixed location for those who live in areas with poor cell coverage.

Mine was a bit further away....

Finally had some time off work , and decent weather. So I moved the 4G cell phone Booster over to the Tacoma. Originally bought this for when I was driving home from working ion West Texas to help minimize the dead Zone. It doesn't get used as much nowadays but it does still come handy Before...