I’m in the same boat. I often carry sensitive electronic test equipment that cost more than my truck. I CAN’T have it getting wet!
I know many of the folding, rolling Tonneau covers don’t leak “at first”. But I can’t risk them staying watertight after opening and closing them over time.
These...
Here's another handy trick...
This one is GOLD!
Get a Speedometer cable kit (Amazon, 8-bucks)
Use that as your “pull line”.
The newer vehicles have so much crap in the cab side of the firewall that you often can’t even see that side of the penetration.
So if you’re just trying to run a...
You’re right!
But I don't use it to "run wire". I use it to run a "pull line".
Then I tape my wire to that (whatever size), put a little dielectric grease on the tape to help it easily slide through the rubber and running wires through a firewall goes from the most difficult part of an install...
Lisle 61030 2-Piece Wire Inserter Combo Set
I don't know what more to say!
Why is everyone hell bent on "reinventing the wheel"?
I've built Squad Cars, Fire trucks, Ambulances, Semi Trucks, bulldozers etc... you can tear your hair out trying to figure out how to run wires through your firewall...
I was joking! ...kinda
We're all 100% on board with the "green utopia" and we have to start somewhere. I’m sure that if the internet had been around back then, the buggy whip manufacturers would have been poking fun at the automobile.
Hey, I'm doing "my" part.
I have a gasoline generator and...
I was all set to go with Chrome after months of looking at pictures of F150 4x4s when my tire dealer informed me that "Chrome Wheels" AREN'T "Chrome" anymore but rather some kind of bastardized, powder coated version of “Chrome Replica” that quickly turns to shit.
Polished Aluminum is as close...
"Hi, this is Ford. We're glad to hear that your answering machine is working which means that you’re NOT currently experiencing a “Rolling Blackout” or a “Public Safety Power Shut Down” which means that you might actuality have a hope in hell of charging your new Lightening F150”!
Simplify your "check list"...
Get the Primium Care ESP.
Throw your check list away, enjoy your new truck and if anything is wrong with it... it's NOT "your" problem for the next 7 years of 70K miles.
Water in the bed of a pick up truck might not be an issue for anyone other than "me" and I get that. But if it's an "issue" for you...
I drove my Undercover SE today in an "Atmospheric River" and it didn't leak a drop!
I completely understand.
I can't put anything in the back of my truck more than a foot or two tall. But "I" don't need too.
That ain't gonna work for most people.
"All Tonneau covers leak".
That's what the idiot salesman told me before I CANCELED the "fold up" he was trying to sell me instead of the solid one I wanted.
I'm SURE the "Roll up/Fold Up" covers are pretty water "resistant"... AT FIRST!
But open & close them over & over for a few years & see...
I work in a city where it's perfectly "LEGAL" to smash out your window, ramsack your truck and steal your shit.
Any ideas on a good place to store my pistol?
I leave for work every morning wondering if I'll have a home to return to WITH power.
Florida is looking better & better every day!
(But their Ford Dealers SUCK!)
I'll take TWO!
Here in California we'll have to buy an F150 with Pro Power to charge our F150 Lightning during the Rolling Blackouts and windy days...
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