When I bought the truck it didn't have a tailgate but one of those bed nets. I liked the open look of it but it sucked so I decided to build my own. It's actually made from an old metal shelf from a store. Pretty decent steel actually. Leave comments either on my photobucket or here and let me know what you guys think. I gave a little description for each picture as I went along.http://s736.photobucket.com/albums/xx9/86yota321/

Hope that link works.

****Note: Thanks to Robb, now you don't have to follow any link. The rest of the pics are below.

 

That's a great idea! Looks real good.

 

links suck, try the [img]yourpic[/img] code:



just a few...nice idea!

 

Hey Robb, this sounds dumb but could you give me a short step-by-step on putting the image in?

Thanks
Brad

 

Ah Ha! Got it

 

i believe there's a sticky on posting pics from photobucket isn't there?

 

Alright, so let's see here. Next 3 pics are of the pivot point. I work at a garage door company and these are 2 roller stems. You can see where I drilled for them to sit behind the brakelight. In the 3rd pic, I welded a washer to each side of the bottom rail for the roller shaft to sit in.

 

Now all ready for paint.

One on each side to keep it closed and tight to the bed

Here it's just set in before I hardware'd it up

I think it turned out pretty good. Cost me under $30 to make. The steel was from a rack we were going to throw away at work.

 

looks good man! well done

 

Good going fellow 'do it yourselfer'!! Do it yourself and you know its done right

 

X lent, looks real clean.

 

Very nice!! Looks great!! I am new to the site. I just got an 88 4runner that I am rebuilding. Hope to get pic up soon.

 

"necessity is the mother of invention"


I love it


good job!

 

Nice job!

 

Thanks for all the comments guys. I was pretty stoked about it when I finished it. Although, now I'm thinking that when I paint the TOYOTA 4 X 4 on it, to add some running lights to the bottom or a set of amber and red flush mounts to each side. Work in progress I guess but I'll add more pics as I add to it.

 

Good idea!! Make offical!!

 

Nice!

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Looks real good man. Can't wait to see what else you'll do to it.