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Inside bed molle racks?

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Does anyone make molle rack kits that mount inside the bed walls like these builtright ones seen here for the f-150?:



I can't seem to find any searching here and elsewhere!

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Someone on here claimed that company was going to make them for the ranger but it hasn't happened yet and it doesn't look like it will at this point
 

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No one’s in a hurry to make these. BuiltRight and Valhalla have been saying coming soon for a year. I contacted Valhalla and they said maybe fall of this year, but probably not till spring. So many people are waiting for these, but the vendors must not see enough potential sales.
 


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I ended up just making a custom bracket for my rotopax for the time being... will prob replace it for some of these when they make a kit though!
 

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No one’s in a hurry to make these. BuiltRight and Valhalla have been saying coming soon for a year. I contacted Valhalla and they said maybe fall of this year, but probably not till spring. So many people are waiting for these, but the vendors must not see enough potential sales.
I agree, been waiting for Builtright Ind. to build the Ranger panels.
Had their racks on my Raptor. Very versatile and useful.
 

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I've been looking for these too, commenting only so I get a notification when one of you finds them and is kind enough to let us know!
 

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As a mechanical Engineer with too much time on my hands, I've been working on designing my own simple rack in this Molle/Pals style. I may end up sending the design out to make a prototype at a machine shop soon.

It's pretty surprising to see nobody makes any of these yet! Especially with how popular they seem to be with the overland tacomas out there.
 

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I shot them an email a couple weeks ago and they said around Christmas time and they added me to an email list that they will notify when its available.
I’ve been on the mailing list for 6 months...
 

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Got some prototype racks made and installed in my truck, pretty happy with them so far! I made these a bolt on install, no drilling. There is a mounting pattern in the center to mount a rotopax, but I've yet to test that part out yet (need to get one). Hopefully I can get one in quick to test it and make sure its strong enough for off-road duty.
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Got some prototype racks made and installed in my truck, pretty happy with them so far! I made these a bolt on install, no drilling. There is a mounting pattern in the center to mount a rotopax, but I've yet to test that part out yet (need to get one). Hopefully I can get one in quick to test it and make sure its strong enough for off-road duty.
rack pouch.jpg
Bed rack crop.jpg
HI K,

Impressive! Well Done. I think your angle flange to the box end box section adds sufficient strength to make this very robust. How many gallons is the Rotopax? At around 7lbs a gallon for gasoline I think you will be just fine. What gauge is the metal matrix?

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Got some prototype racks made and installed in my truck, pretty happy with them so far! I made these a bolt on install, no drilling. There is a mounting pattern in the center to mount a rotopax, but I've yet to test that part out yet (need to get one). Hopefully I can get one in quick to test it and make sure its strong enough for off-road duty.
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Nice work!
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