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Old thread, but ignition is on and the parking brake is set? Both a requirement for the factory compressor to work.

100% hands down, the most urgently needed item is an extended gas tank. The tiny gas tank that it comes with, combined with bad gas mileage, makes it really annoying on long trips! I use a lot of your products on My Bronco and I know this is a little different than the norm, but search this...

Those will definitely work as long as your bolts are the correct length. The T-slots are 20mm wide so 18mm will fit. I’m guessing that the height of the wings will fit. They don’t provide that measurement nor the width of the section that comes up. The channel width is 10mm and it looks like...

You are correct on the Retrax Pro with slots. There are drain holes that are already in the front of the bed that you can drill out a little bigger for the drain tubes. Personally, I just left the tubes inside the bed and don’t really care if water gets in. If I’m hauling stuff that can’t get...

That looks great!! I like the dual channels on the cover. Which one is that?

Ya, it’s just the whole process of Ebrake and acc… I’d rather just hit an aux button

With the factory compressor, you have to have the ignition on and parking brake set. I’m trying to see if I can rewire it so none of that is necessary.

I'd like to rewire my factory compressor so it runs off aux rather than running the truck and setting the parking brake. Anyone try this? That mystery plug in the back isn't a dust cap btw. I thought I could check it for power and maybe, at a minimum, pull power from there if its on acc? I have...

That is one of the covers I looked at when I started the project. Other people who have added that tonneau with racks or bars, say it works fine. You just have to roll it up in an oval rather than a round circle, so the rolled cover squishes down under the inward cant of the bars. (go to 3:01...

Looks great! Not too difficult of a job, right?

I ended up going with the 275/70/18 KO3s. They still aren’t big enough to fix my speedometer, but now it’s only off by 1 mph. I think the 285s would fit ok without issues, but I added mudflaps on the front and they would need to be removed for the 285s. I’m too stubborn to do that so 275s it is.

You are correct. I used a grinder with a wheel for metal cutting, then a grinding wheel to shape it out and finally a wheel for sanding/polishing to make it smooth.

I drove it before and after with the back window open and there is no difference in wind noise. You can compare this photo to your setup and I think it actually raises just enough to make it more streamlined, so the air flows under the front edge of the bar rather than into it?

I didn’t reuse the foam padding. I bolted it directly to the T rails and it doesn’t rattle at all. It’s really solid on there. I did buy some 1” marine foam to add to the bottom where it hangs over the edge of the rails (just to fill the gap), but never used it since it doesn’t really look bad...

I have a 25 TH and the speedometer is off by 2mph at 60. Rather than installing a Hypertech calibration in the dash, bigger tires make more sense(I'd probably do it anyway at some point). From what I gather here, I should be able to go to 285/70/18 KO3s with no issues, correct? Anyone here have...

Happy to send more photos/info if you have questions.

Added a tonneau cover and kept my sport bars. https://www.tacoma4g.com/forum/threads/arb-sport-bar-tonneau-cover-combination-how-to-have-both-my-solution.15686/page-2

I was worried about the same thing. My first choice was a BAK roll top cover. Mount it sitting on top of a plate that connected to the rail system and had bolts going up for the bars, instead of the T-slots. That was just too much fabrication and I couldn’t find anything on the market that I was...

I squeezed the bars closest to the cab in about 1/8 - 3/16” on each side just to minimize to amount of overhang out from the tonneau track. But I don’t really think that made much of a difference. Unfortunately I didn’t take any before photos from that angle to compare.

I looked at that as an option too, but it looks like the Diamondback flips up? If that’s the case, you could cut the mounting tabs off the sport bars and bolt them to the top of the cover. The limitation would be that the front section of the cover would only open 60% ish.