I'm in the process of gathering material to build a canoe rack for the truck. I'm going to be forced to drill 8 holes in the bedliner and bed. The 4 at the the rear are going to be pretty easy, remove taillights and gain access to inner part of steppie bed. Now the question I have is this, on the front part, near the cab, I can either go in between the bed and the cab which would call for custom brackets to hold the rails together or remove the bed and use the sides of the bed. Custom brackets are not a problem to make, but just how hard is it to remove the bed and bedliner to gain access to the gap in between the fiberglass and the sheetmetal from a truck that has never had it removed? I know it's just a few torx bits, anyone know what size? Any unknowns that I"m overlooking?
In a nut shell, remove bedliner, unbolt bed, slide bed back about 6 inches, drill holes, reassemble. Does that about cover it?

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'02 XLT ext. cab 4.0 4x4 Off Road
Usual mods
Unusual color
Only a real man can pimp DWB

What are you building the rack out of?

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Sold:2004 XLT 4x2 Ext. Cab. 3.0 Mods: 3" spindle, AAL, shackle, 32x11.5 on 15x8s, billet grille, clear corners, flow 40 dumped, line-x, CB/PA, traction bars, lil sound system, auto up down windows
Sold:2005 XLT 4x4 Ext. Cab. 4.0 Mods: ProComp lights w/ HID swap on tabs, 32x11.5 on 15x8s, CB/PA, black out heads/corners, lil sound system, cranked t-bars, flow 40 dumped, line-x, shell, bed rug, 06+ tails, metal tail gate handle since plastic one shattered, OHC, Mustang Dome.

Powdercoated Unistrut.

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'02 XLT ext. cab 4.0 4x4 Off Road
Usual mods
Unusual color
Only a real man can pimp DWB

The factory bed liner will come out easy. You pull it up from the middle after you get the tie downs off with i believe are a T-30 and the bed bolt are a T-55. they aren't too hard to take off just be sure you have a breaker bar and do it slow or they will strip. (learned the hard way)

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2001 3.0 V6 Automatic "Police Interceptor"
4x4 Off-Road
3" Body Lift
Belltech 6400 Shackles
JBA Headers
LOKRITE Locker
COBRA disc conversion

yeah ill come help on this one

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2001 4.0l SOHC Ranger EDGE 2wd,Kenwood head unit,.Towing package, Cobra radar dector,Straight pipes, Black UWS Low Profile Tool Box,Air box mod,Throttle cable mod,Maxed T-Bars, Light Bar,



1964 Chevy C10 inline 6 granny 4 (play toy) painted in bedliner