Great idea! Definitely going to do something similar in my Lightning.

@JosephHerzog

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I don’t usually do projects like this so I doubted myself so it’s nice to get a little validation that I didn’t royally screw it up! 😂

This has provided me some inspiration on how to mount some hose reels for my pressure washing business. Thanks!

@JosephHerzog

4 ай бұрын

Glad it helped! These rails just provide so much flexibility, you can slap anything on these bad boys! I’m upgrading to powder coated steel this coming week.

I love this concept and will be adding it to mine. Thank you for the ideas!!

@JosephHerzog

Жыл бұрын

Anytime! If you have difficulty just comment! Or if you have improvements when you do yours let me know.

I recommend buying a mat for the bed since you don't have a spray in bed liner to protect from scratching and denting plus it helps with items not moving around if you don't strap it down. Nice looking truck👍

@JosephHerzog

Жыл бұрын

Definitely! It's on the long list of upgrades. Only get paid every 2 weeks so have to pace myself 😂

Watch out for galvanic corrosion (since you used aluminum and another metal and will probably get wet) but great idea though

Damn look at the Lightning ⚡ doing truck things

@JosephHerzog

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Tying things down in the bed still stresses me out. Haven't really pushed it yet as a TRUCK

Great idea, thank you for this video, I might try something similar using aluminum T-tracks and stainless hardware

@JosephHerzog

11 ай бұрын

Great idea! Hope it goes well for you. Love the added utility

I use hot glue gun to hold parts together temporarily. I have a china gun that takes dewalt batteries. Works really quick

PVC Pipe instead of square tubing for spacers!

@puntabachata

2 ай бұрын

Or hex couplers. Galvanized steel or stainless.

EXCELLENT DIY video idea, and done well. Any info on those flagpole mounts?… maybe a link?

@JosephHerzog

5 ай бұрын

www.roughcountry.com/product/configurable/universal-bed-rail-flag-pole-holder-117501c#2921=6550 They work great! I ended up making custom flag poles out of materials from Lowe’s

@errtex

5 ай бұрын

@@JosephHerzog Very cool….. Any chance there’ll be a vid on those?

Too late for you, but I recommend painting the fender washers and maybe even the bolt heads as experience tells me they will rust like mine did here in humid GA. Paint anything zinc plated ... so I guess I'm saying paint the rails also.

@JosephHerzog

Жыл бұрын

That thought definitely crossed my mind! I also thought of possibly getting them powder coated. Wanted to make sure I liked the concept before dropping more money into them. But I completely agree. Probably will go with black. Great suggestion!

@JosephHerzog

Жыл бұрын

Never too late to improve! I can always just unbolt the rails to paint/powder coat/etc.

@KLFaber

Жыл бұрын

@@JosephHerzog I like the way it looks now, so maybe you can find some paint color that looks like it does now. There's always the black $4 rattle can at Walmart.

@JosephHerzog

Жыл бұрын

@@KLFaber not a bad idea! And very affordable

Why not use L track instead of unistrut?

were the holes for the uni-strut already in the truck bed?

@JosephHerzog

4 ай бұрын

Yep! Those threaded holes are for Fords “BoxLink” system. I just removed the hardware that was there and bought matching bolts from Lowe’s. I don’t believe all ford trucks come standard with BoxLink though so your truck may or may not have these

Whole time I was like “yes Big 12/UC flags will look GREAT”

@JosephHerzog

Жыл бұрын

Yuss Justin! I like the way you think! I plan on tailgating the UC vs OK game this year. My parents had a headache of a time with parking this past week, it got a lot more competitive with the conference shift.

UP THE TOWN GO RED

@JosephHerzog

4 ай бұрын

This took me a second ;)