DOH!The small problem with them is fitting in the short rail, I had to remove the spring to fit the shorter rail. On the full size rails they worked that was the same as I got. That's a photo of the 2 different ones I used the short one on front.
These are the style to use on the 1/2 strut. You have this option, a tightly wound spring on top style, and a metal spring clip on top.The orange store sells these for $5 or so for a pkg. works on short or tall unistrut. Plan to use short strut to make bed rails and paint them black. I used a piece of short strut to make an adjustable track mount on the top of the dash,that I painted black, for my phone, 2 HAM radios and go pro using these clips in 1/4-20 thread. Worked fine.
I thought about getting a bag of them at first but I got the spring ones when I got the struts, M6 bolts, washers and ECT. I think that I did pick up a bag of them later.
Thanks for the tips between tou and the guy who made the video rhis was a breeze. Took longer to find it then in did to install it. I did pay a little more because i went with 6x 24” sections
I like saving a few bucks here and there if I can justify what Im doing will work well, can handle what I want and isnt Rube Goldberg’ed, so I figured I would save a couple hundred bucks and make my own bed utility rails from parts sourced locally.
I took a trip down to my local big box store today. I picked up a couple Super Struts B Channel for $19 each, some M6 1.0x35mm bolts, lock washers and flat washers, oh, some end caps for the super struts. All told, Im into it for about $50. I need to rattle-can the struts or even take them to a powder coater. and maybe my tie-downs, which actually came with my Titan and its utility rail’s.
The only downside to using these tiedown is they need to be set into the rails prior to attaching the rails to the bed due to how friggin bulky they are.
I have the spray in bed-liner so the threads where the stock rails would have been are coated but not completely covered over.
I sacrificed one of the M6 bolts the pre-run it in and out of them all before installing the rails. This helped clean-up the threads. The sides I cut to 52”, the front I cut to 48” but could have done 48.75”.
On each of the side rails 1 hole needs to be drilled through the struts to match-up with the manufactures thread on the bed. 2 Holes fir the front strut need drilled. I used a 3/8” bit, it allows for a little wiggle room.
The bolt heads are a little taller than I like but dont pose any significant problems and the washers are a little softer or pliable than I like. But the selection at the big orange store wasnt that great, I’ll make my way over to a hardware store Im sure will have more of what I’d prefer to use and swap them out when it comes time to paint.
The pics are out of order, sorry.
These holes are for the mopar roll-up tonneau cover@Red Hot Sloth you show M6 1.0 bolts for mounting the rails. I’m thinking I’m gonna do the same as you did on my JTR for more versatile tie down points. My question is about the threads that are pre tapped into the bed. Mainly the ones circled in the pic below. There are two holes in the corner of the bed, one is open and one is threaded. I’m thinking of using those two to mount my HAM radio antenna using an L bracket, but the threaded one is half full of bed liner spray. I’ve got a tap and die set but was hoping to make sure I use the right tap to clean it out so I don’t screw up the threads. Can you or anyone else confirm that it is m6 1.0 threads also??
