Tool Boxes - Show me yours please
We've had a rolling bed cover for years, and on this last trip the cover split. Second time, and this time I am not going to replace it. But I still need secure storage. Going with a cross-bed toolbo...
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8 ft truck bed, had a tool box across the rails behind the cab, and a 5er. One day, the 5er front corner scraped on the tool box while turning in a non-level situation. Yipes, could have cost a bunch bashing in the 5er's corner if it had been !/2" more.
So I cut the tool box short in the middle and taped it all up waterproof so it was now all down in the truck bed at rail height. No more issues with the 5er.
Meanwhile at least two folks I know with 6 ft truck beds poked out their back windows with their 5ers. The way it works is having the tool box across the rails behind the cab turns your 8 ft into a 6 ft as far as the 5er is concerned. Set it down off the rails and you are ok. The Honda 3000 also in the bed stuck up higher with its gas filler lid, but it was ok being in the middle when the 5er was tilted, but the tool box ends out on the rails were not ok.
So I cut the tool box short in the middle and taped it all up waterproof so it was now all down in the truck bed at rail height. No more issues with the 5er.
Meanwhile at least two folks I know with 6 ft truck beds poked out their back windows with their 5ers. The way it works is having the tool box across the rails behind the cab turns your 8 ft into a 6 ft as far as the 5er is concerned. Set it down off the rails and you are ok. The Honda 3000 also in the bed stuck up higher with its gas filler lid, but it was ok being in the middle when the 5er was tilted, but the tool box ends out on the rails were not ok.
