HILUX mods and why I am quitting fabrication.

[OFC Ranger]

I see this. I want to do this. I realize my skill set is so far below this. I give up.

I am still pondering how the simple task of mounting the sliders internal to the bedside is even done.

Completely aftermarket bed? Skinned the shell then reinstalled? A really really really long rivet gun?

?!?!?!

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[DukeCanBuildit]

Wow - never mind the pyramids, this is the real proof we’ve been visited by aliens.

Anyone familiar with that hitch?

 

[Grumpaw]

I see this. I want to do this. I realize my skill set is so far below this. I give up.

I am still pondering how the simple task of mounting the sliders internal to the bedside is even done.

Completely aftermarket bed? Skinned the shell then reinstalled? A really really really long rivet gun?

?!?!?!

Come-on, with your skill set, it should be easy...a pair of tin snips and a few drawer sliders, a rivet gun, and it shouldn't take you more than an hour or two

 

[OFC Ranger]

Come-on, with your skill set, it should be easy...a pair of tin snips and a few drawer sliders, a rivet gun, and it shouldn't take you more than an hour or two

No, I can tell you 100% this would be the result, as I have done this same literal thing, sitting on my garage floor or in my garage lazy boy staring at my truck like it was some sort of soul crushing apparatus.

 

[TJC]

I see this. I want to do this. I realize my skill set is so far below this. I give up.

I am still pondering how the simple task of mounting the sliders internal to the bedside is even done.

Completely aftermarket bed? Skinned the shell then reinstalled? A really really really long rivet gun?

?!?!?!

I know that I am missing the point but I can't image that this is good for the AR!
Thinking about it a bit more, it can't be good for the tail light wiring either!

It sure looks cool from a design and engineering perspective.

Any I would not trust that hitch for anything of any size! It is also lousy for clearance unless it is easily removable.

-T

 

[Wolfman00]

that hitch is good for one thing. only.

 

[myothercarizahearse]

that hitch is good for one thing. only.

hitching stuff?


there was probably a ton of cutting and welding but that is slick. figure out the refrigeration part for the beer and good to go. or...

 

[Blmpkn]

I know that I am missing the point but I can't image that this is good for the AR!
Thinking about it a bit more, it can't be good for the tail light wiring either!

It sure looks cool from a design and engineering perspective.

Any I would not trust that hitch for anything of any size! It is also lousy for clearance unless it is easily removable.

-T

Looks like a paintball gun to me with its double trigger.

Countries that get hilux's don't have the requisite freedom's to own an AR for the most part lol.

 

[TJC]

Yep, upon closer inspection you're correct. It is not an AR. Imagine a thief stealing your ultra expensive Ford taillights and finding your gun in there! Or a few brews!

 

[VAMike]

Anyone familiar with that hitch?

ISO style hitch used everywhere except north america

 

[veedubtuner]

I know that I am missing the point but I can't image that this is good for the AR!
Thinking about it a bit more, it can't be good for the tail light wiring either!

Not to mention how many of them adult beverages survive without being broken driving to the destination to use said AR? Assuming they're adult beverages and not root beer lol?

 

[Highlander]

I see this. I want to do this. I realize my skill set is so far below this. I give up.

I am still pondering how the simple task of mounting the sliders internal to the bedside is even done.

Completely aftermarket bed? Skinned the shell then reinstalled? A really really really long rivet gun?

?!?!?!

Check this out.



Frank

 

[9zero1790]

i saw a dodge concept a while back that had lots of hidden bed compartments. i liked it. they never built it of course.
that hilux bed is sweet. jack you could do it. dont count yourself out till you give it try

 

[OFC Ranger]

i saw a dodge concept a while back that had lots of hidden bed compartments. i liked it. they never built it of course.
that hilux bed is sweet. jack you could do it. dont count yourself out till you give it try

No way in hell. I can imagine the money I would burn through figuring out the system by butchering the bed side and taillights.

 

[Funkster]

If I were fabricating something like this for a customer, I can tell you how I personally would go about it.

I assume there is not enough room in the bed for this setup, so the inner metal would have to be cut back to expose on the exterior metal. I would build a metal box structure that would house the slider system and would be welded or bolted in depending on customer's desire to remove.

Before installing I would finish out and paint the inside of the metal structure to match and then install the box assembly. The tailights I would make brackets for to bolt on the end of the box slider structure, but utilize factory light mounting points.

Care would have to be taken and I would likely utilize very high weight, soft close sliders with a firm detent for security when closed and likely even a locking mechanism inside the box/slider assembly itself.

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