Option for bed cover drain hoses (ymmv)

[JeepOfTheseus]

I believe a lot of the bed cover options come with 2 or 4 drain hoses which are intended to route water/moisture from the channels along the sides away from the truck. The TruckCovers USA cover specifically has 4: two at the front, under the roll canister itself, and two at the rear.

Their instructions say to drill 4 holes and use the provided grommets. Interestingly they don’t even have you reuse the plugs at the front, which I know the Rugged Ridge cover says to use.

In any case, I realized there’s already 4 holes at the perfect locations. The rears are roughly 5/8” diameter and the fronts are 5/8” x 1” ovals, accounting for the slight bedliner overspray. It turns out, this is almost a perfect fit for them: https://www.homedepot.com/p/3-4-in-Plastic-PEX-Barb-90-Degree-Elbow-5-Pack-PXPAE345PK/301541108

It says 3/4”, but the barb is closer to 1/2” - it was actually loose in the holes. To “fix” this, I used one layer of cloth tape and it snuggled right up. The hoses I got were about 3/4” ID, so they were a hair loose, but easily solved with zip ties (which I was going to use anyways).

Just thought I’d share, I’m pretty happy with the results.

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[CFLgladiator]

That looks very clean

 

[graphikartistry]

Hey! I'm looking into getting either:
Truck Covers USA American Roll Cover Matte Black
or
Pace Edwards Full Metal Matte Black JackRabbit Tonneau Cover

Curious what you're experience/satisfaction has been with your product.

 

[JeepOfTheseus]

Hey! I'm looking into getting either:
Truck Covers USA American Roll Cover Matte Black
or
Pace Edwards Full Metal Matte Black JackRabbit Tonneau Cover

Curious what you're experience/satisfaction has been with your product.

One of the sturdiest, pain-free mods I’ve done. After 3 years, the only issue I had was some cargo slightly dented the top portion of the cover rails and as a result on certain days the cover won’t roll back on its own without a slight push. But even then sometimes it works just fine. My RTT and 8 gal waterport are mounted to it full-time and it remains solid as day one.

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