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I popped the corner plastic pieces off the top of the bed sides and bolted it to steel pieces below that function to sandwich the factory steel between it. It takes about 2 hours to take off or on, but that includes removing the ramboxes. I tried to mimic the nuthouse industries design, but taller to allow me to use my bed cover.
I used 2" tubing with 1/8" walls. Total overkill but I figured I would rather have it too stout than not support whatever weight might end up on top.
Nice work. I'm taking the family out next week for a couple camping outings to get some use out of my rtt for the first time. Throw another picture or two up after you get a tent.
Will do. We're going camping Father's Day weekend (already have a tent). Should be interesting, it's the first time I've convinced the wife to join me in the RTT.
I'm installing my RTT this week to Yakima OutPost HD / HD Bar system which will sit over my retraxone XR cover and have a couple of questions you might be able to help me with? 1. When you are camping and have the RTT deployed, do you do anything with the air suspension? Put it in Jack/tire mode? ... I really wish you could manually control each corner of the air suspension, would love to be able to use that to help level the bed/tent. 2. I've been trying and failing to see what weight the bed / side rails can safely hold. I'm assuming its more than the Yakima HD bars and my RTT can, but I'd love to see it in a manual somewhere. Any idea or where to look?
1. I just put the suspension in entry/exit, to lower as much as possible. 2. I don't know where to look for the weight rating of the bed rails and I doubt you'll find it as it would be dependent on distribution of the weight. It's pretty safe to assume the bed side can handle more than the Yakima system.
