Bedless.....

Build a tube bed or put ole beaten back on

  • A tube bed will look like crap on your truck! Put the bed back on!

    Votes: 13 27.7%

  • Tube beds are the shiznit....go tube

    Votes: 33 70.2%

  • Leave it like it is now......

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Total voters
    47
HardTaco

HardTaco

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Ok, dropped the BL last night, and didnt put the bed back on to see how i would like it(closest comparison to a tube bed). Theres a pic enclosed.....ive had a poll like this before, but now i have a pic for comparison......money isnt to big of deal so its just the option of whether i should do it or not...


Josh
 

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josh, have you measured my tube bed on the black truck to see if it would work on your truck??? if you are interested, i'll make you a sweet deal on it... im not gonna be using it anymore
 
Leave the bed on, but tube it out with the bars going through the bed. Leaves much more space that is easily usuable, but adds a ton of strength in case of a rollover. I think you have probably seen this pic before, but anyways:

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His is not finished yet, when we will finish it I don't know, but something like that is what I would suggest. Definetly add a X in the hoop bar if you do not have one, a rollbar won't do much without one on a hard hit.

Dovetailing it looks cool, but if you leave the bed it won't help a ton, just cut about 13" out of the bed and leave it like that, don't leave it stock length though, I still scrape my bedsides (not sure on what), because I have a dent in one of them, I think it might be from the waterfall at Callalantee, and they are shortened and dovetailed.


EDIT: And also, he has since trashed the bedliner and did a Herculiner which looks MUCH better, he also made a storage drawer which the tire now sits on top of.
 
well

Forget the bed sell it and make $$$$$ off of it. EBAY!!! Then have STUDNUTS make an insane and crazy tube bed for you like he has for all the other crazy toyota boys. you know who I am talking about. LOL!!!! Anything else and you will be copying the guys you know? Have STUDNUTS hook you up with something cool and then you can try the circle again. HAHAHAHA!!!!!So far only I made it out of there the real way,down stream. We both had to winch. Lets go back Josh. Do it.
 
you work off of hillsborough street near cary right? across from olde time bbq.
i saw your truck and i see you tubed it. looks good.
 
Yep, secrets out...lol. We did it the other night. I still havent got a floor in it or some of the little things i wanna get done to it, ill post up pics as soon as i get it halfway presentable.

Thanks for the compliment though

Josh
 
Haha, to make a long story short, the regular bed is back on the taco. It will be getting some new tube bumpers though........sorry man. It was tubed for about 5 days though....
 
leave the bed. it's still nice to have space to put stuff. I hated my old truck for not having a bed.
 
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