Rough Country Tri-Fold Bed Cover (24 TRD OR)

[dylanaclk]

Hello,

I went with the RC Tri-Fold bed cover for my TRD OR. Installed it by myself and only took an hour but half of that was trying to figure out what the instructions were trying to say. I installed it in December and hasn’t caused any problems. Cheers!

Edit: I will say one thing, couldn’t really figure out how I’m going to get the drain tubes to do there thing, the holes in the bed are too small. If anyone has any advice on that feel free to drop below.

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[JoeMongo]

Re:
"Edit: I will say one thing, couldn’t really figure out how I’m going to get the drain tubes to do there thing, the holes in the bed are too small. If anyone has any advice on that feel free to drop below."

Well, if I were you, I'd drill holes right in the corners of the bed, a bit smaller than the tubing OD, and push the tubes about 2" though into those holes.

Check the bottom of your bed before you drill any holes. It almost entirely visible if you don't mind lying on your back under your truck. I drilled another hole in mine just so I would have drains closer to the outside of the bed.

My Diamondback doesn't have drain tubes, but not having bed drain holes in the corners is not a good thing.
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[jsuber]

We installed one of these on my dad’s 24 GMC 1500 Denali and much like every after market part purchased for my 24 Taco engineering is done in another country and the methodology of installation is altering. Every aftermarket purchase I have installed is completely different from the videos and especially instructional information sent. Some even lack all the parts. The easiest install was the little dash storage that fits over the multi media screen.

 

[TxGlenn]

Edit: I will say one thing, couldn’t really figure out how I’m going to get the drain tubes to do there thing, the holes in the bed are too small. If anyone has any advice on that feel free to drop below.

I bought the same cover. I just drilled out the existing holes to make them slightly larger so the drain tubes fit right in. No problems.

 

[tonymac]

Yeah, what TxGlenn said. I have the RC low profile top but it has the same drains. I drilled out the holes a bit and squeezed pipe into it. It’s a composite bed so drilling is quite easy.

 

[jsuber]

Hello,

I went with the RC Tri-Fold bed cover for my TRD OR. Installed it by myself and only took an hour but half of that was trying to figure out what the instructions were trying to say. I installed it in December and hasn’t caused any problems. Cheers!

Edit: I will say one thing, couldn’t really figure out how I’m going to get the drain tubes to do there thing, the holes in the bed are too small. If anyone has any advice on that feel free to drop below.

We did the drains through the existing holes in the corner post of my Dads GMC.

 

[dylanaclk]

I bought the same cover. I just drilled out the existing holes to make them slightly larger so the drain tubes fit right in. No problems.

Is there any specific drill bit I need to use? Definitely new to the whole modifying and doing work on my own vehicles so I’m still learning lol

 

[jsuber]

Is there any specific drill bit I need to use? Definitely new to the whole modifying and doing work on my own vehicles so I’m still learning lol

In my opinion, if you are not flush with drill bit kits then I would buy a unibit.

 

[TxGlenn]

Is there any specific drill bit I need to use? Definitely new to the whole modifying and doing work on my own vehicles so I’m still learning lol

I don't think it really matters especially since you are just enlarging an existing hole versus drilling a new one. Just find a bit slightly smaller than the tube and the tube should fit snug.

 

[ejosesa]

Hello,

I went with the RC Tri-Fold bed cover for my TRD OR. Installed it by myself and only took an hour but half of that was trying to figure out what the instructions were trying to say. I installed it in December and hasn’t caused any problems. Cheers!

Edit: I will say one thing, couldn’t really figure out how I’m going to get the drain tubes to do there thing, the holes in the bed are too small. If anyone has any advice on that feel free to drop below.

sorry. I know this is an old thread but I have a question. I did just buy the OR premium and received the RC fold up tonneau, like yours.
I installed it after watching a few videos and reading the instructions, but I can’t get the latch to close over the power lift gate. So it’s not secured.
and when I try to close the tonneau while the gate is open and latch closed, then close the power tailgate, the tailgate gets blocked and I’m forced to unlatch the tonneau then manually close and then leave the tonneau flopping unlatched.

Do you know if I may have done something wrong?

 

[dylanaclk]

sorry. I know this is an old thread but I have a question. I did just buy the OR premium and received the RC fold up tonneau, like yours.
I installed it after watching a few videos and reading the instructions, but I can’t get the latch to close over the power lift gate. So it’s not secured.
and when I try to close the tonneau while the gate is open and latch closed, then close the power tailgate, the tailgate gets blocked and I’m forced to unlatch the tonneau then manually close and then leave the tonneau flopping unlatched.

Do you know if I may have done something wrong?

I’m going to preface this with saying this is just a guess and I can’t tell what’s going on with just a single photo, but it looks like the flap (the water seal or whatever its function is) is preventing it from closing all the way. My Taco cover has the flap folded back to where it isn’t visible. Does that make it useless if it’s a seal? Yup. But I’d rather have it fully closed. That’s the only issue I ran into when I close mine. I can send a picture if my words are confusing, I know it isn’t the most specific fix in the world.

 

[ejosesa]

I’m going to preface this with saying this is just a guess and I can’t tell what’s going on with just a single photo, but it looks like the flap (the water seal or whatever its function is) is preventing it from closing all the way. My Taco cover has the flap folded back to where it isn’t visible. Does that make it useless if it’s a seal? Yup. But I’d rather have it fully closed. That’s the only issue I ran into when I close mine. I can send a picture if my words are confusing, I know it isn’t the most specific fix in the world.

no that totally makes sense. I wanted to keep the functionality of the gasket, so I didn’t try folding it back. But I would think it would just keep curling back to its original form. Sounds kind of annoying. I reached out to RC. Hopefully there’s a solution.

 

[TxGlenn]

I don't think that flap is designed to fold up like that.

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