R1T bed tie down rails installed (adopted from Tacoma)

[Mcfly Rivian]

If you're looking to add some more tie down points this might be an option for you. I was missing the versatility of the rail system on my previous Tacoma. I do track days and have to haul a lot of gear with the tail gate down. I ended up buying the 3 tacoma bed rails, end caps, and m6 bolts from my local toyota dealership. Part numbers on the attached invoice. I purchased 2 extra m6 bolts, you only need 10. Cost me around 200 bucks all in.

Mounting bolts use the 3 capped points on the side of the bed and 4 on the header. Discard the plastic caps, and 10mm bolts, re use the large metal spacers. All three rails were slightly too long, I cut them down with a grinder. You will also need to drill 2 holes on the side rails and 2 on the header rail. You can use 1 pre driled hole on the side rails and 2 on the header rail. My tonneau cover clears with plenty of space. I'm going to buy the tie down cleats off Amazon. The Toyota ones are 25 bucks each if you order from the dealership. Update, on my truck the tonneau just clears the oem toyota cleats. Pics added. The header rail is very close, sides have more clearance.

Really happy how it turned out, looks OEM with the black finish.

Side cleat clearance

Header rail clearance

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[jjswan33]

Nice work. I actually have a set of these side rails and have been procrastinating on doing exactly this. The end cap part numbers is a big help.

Do you have some Toyota cleats as well?

 

[Mcfly Rivian]

Nice work. I actually have a set of these side rails and have been procrastinating on doing exactly this. The end cap part numbers is a big help.

Do you have some Toyota cleats as well?

Thanks! I don't unfortunately. If I could go back I would have kept them and removed the rails before trading in the taco.

 

[ironpig]

That's a great idea, thanks for sharing.

 

[WattTruckMatt]

Awesome. I'm ordering as well. Will be nice reminder of my past Tacomas.

For those of you who aren't near a dealership, I recommend ToyotaPartsDeal.com. Parts are a bit cheaper but you do pay for shipping. A bit more than $200 when all is said and done but delivered to my house.

 

[Mcfly Rivian]

That's a great idea, thanks for sharing.

Your welcome! I'm sure Rivian will have a similar accessory in the future. They put in the mounting points for a reason. I just got tired of waiting.

 

[atebit]

I saved the rails I removed from previous my Tundra when I installed a tonneau cover. I’ll have to see if they’ll work.

 

[COdogman]

Those rails are very useful. Nice job!

 

[Kuro-Rivian]

This is perfect. Thank you!

 

[EveryAmp]

Great idea. This will be helpful to keep things in place while the tonneau cover is close too. Just having the lower strap points has been limiting at times.

 

[HighVoltOverland]

I did the same recently with some unistrut
All in about 40 bucks and it works with any Nissan utilitrac gear

 

[rkalbiar]

@AustinWheeler45 how about some pics?

 

[Surfinkal]

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[HighVoltOverland]

@AustinWheeler45 how about some pics?

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Currently in the rough in phase:

Will paint and get end caps eventually

The back of the bed walls have a slant that starts near the tailgate, so you cannot make the rail full bed length without some creative bending/ back grinding. I just chose shorter rails.

Will Be adding a back rail and some of the half strut on the tire cover for proper tie down points

Haven't had the chance to run to the store but there are infinite unistrut tie down options,
a popular one is to just use a nut, plate and eye bolt. also, as stated previously he Nissan cleats (and all Nissan "Utilitrac" accessories work with it as it is the same dimensions.
I also like that this/the Nissan track is metal, iirc some of the taco tracks are a polymer, if that matters to anyone
This may actually open up the option to use the Nissan bed extender, will try whenever I get around to visiting my dad and stealing it off his

(sneak peak as the much more interesting project I'm working on (used unistrut scrap as well)

 

[jebinc]

If you're looking to add some more tie down points this might be an option for you. I was missing the versatility of the rail system on my previous Tacoma. I do track days and have to haul a lot of gear with the tail gate down. I ended up buying the 3 tacoma bed rails, end caps, and m6 bolts from my local toyota dealership. Part numbers on the attached invoice. I purchased 2 extra m6 bolts, you only need 10. Cost me around 200 bucks all in.

Mounting bolts use the 3 capped points on the side of the bed and 4 on the header. Discard the plastic caps, and 10mm bolts, re use the large metal spacers. All three rails were slightly too long, I cut them down with a grinder. You will also need to drill 2 holes on the side rails and 2 on the header rail. You can use 1 pre driled hole on the side rails and 2 on the header rail. My tonneau cover clears with plenty of space. I'm going to buy the tie down cleats off Amazon. The Toyota ones are 25 bucks each if you order from the dealership. Update, on my truck the tonneau just clears the oem toyota cleats. Pics added. The header rail is very close, sides have more clearance.

Really happy how it turned out, looks OEM with the black finish.

Side cleat clearance

Header rail clearance

Do you have the part number for the cleats?

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