bgenlvtex
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- Bruce
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Kind words and thank you very much, it's a little late to chronicle those aspects of it but I will be happy to help you with any specific questions you might have. If I had it to do over again (and I might in my Power Wagon) there is not much I would do differently. It is all pretty straight forward provided you have some basic skills .Please make a similar thread about the P-track, etc. I plan to skip the trail rail in favor of doing more or less exactly this. I read your posts in the ARE topper thread, and the p-track mounting, buttons, tray, etc. all deserve some attention. What you've got there is proper "built not bought", and the Gladiator scene needs more of that.
I bought one of the first ARE toppers the very next day after my purchase of the Glad Rubi last August and found the single strip very bright. The OEM bed lights add to this and I have plenty of light in the bed, which I need to see what the extra large dog is up too. Your wiring is flawless! Excellent work. I do not like nor trust the Topper hold down clips and bolted mine directly to the bed. I too went shpping on Amazon and had the power outlet installed by my 4X4 shop. One thing about ARE....the paint match was perfect. A few pics of mine follows.There was none, all that was in there was a tiny little useless piece of shit about as bright as a Bic lighter
I've not seen the P-track buttons prior to your photos in the other thread. Did you screw them directly to the bedside, or do any nutserts or anything for rust prevetion, anything like that?I will be happy to help you with any specific questions you might have.
So to be clear, what you are calling P-track is in fact L-track, specifically angled and undrilled L-track from US cargo control in 96" lengths I cut to length. They precisely fit the relief in the bed for the factory rails and are very strong. They are attached using the factory nutserts and I added one more per side. The factory holes are not on a regular pattern, so I used a piece of 2" blue painters tape to transfer the pattern from the bed to the L‐track.I've not seen the P-track buttons prior to your photos in the other thread. Did you screw them directly to the bedside, or do any nutserts or anything for rust prevetion, anything like that?
What did you go with on the track rails themselves in terms of holes. I think I've seen it totally blank, and with holes drilled and sunk at some predefined (some standard maybe?) intervals. Were you able to use the existing trail rail holes? What did you do there?
Show a bit more detail on your fractional platform and how it works with the P-track.
The whole thing deserves its own thread with a heavy dose of show and tell. My thoughts (truck not yet in hand) are to do P-track (or similar) in lieu of the trail rails on the sides, but also across the top of the bed up front, possibly again down low in sections (those buttons look ideal for that) and along the floor in up to 4 locations. Situationally depending, I'd like to use product I've used in the past as a bed liner, and allow for the P-track to be accessed through it. A thorough case study in the use of P-track for cargo management in a Gladiator would be greatly appreciated as an entry point for my own planning and execution.