Howdy y'all!  Josh at 1stGenOffroad, again. Glad you're here! So today we're working on the 2004 Toyota Tundra Double Cab. You know, I love these trucks, but as you a lot of you guys know there's a serious lack of aftermarket support for these things. I was looking for a mid-height uh bed rack, cuz I wanted to put a rooftop tent on top and I don't want it to sit higher than the cab and blow in the wind and and it's nice to have it tucked kind of just kind of
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lower, even with the cab of the truck. But they don't really make an off-the-shelf option for a mid-height rack. So just a little backstory... so back in the 90s Toyota had the Tacoma and the T100 and they were trying to develop a half ton pickup that could compete with the F-150.  So Toyota came out with the Tundra, but they originally wanted to call it the T-150 and of course the lawyers at Ford didn't like that, so they changed the name to the "Tundra", so I thought well, you
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know, Sherpa has a rack, a mid-height rack for a Ford F-150 and if it's good enough for the F-150 maybe it'll fit the T-150.  Sure enough it does!  So in today's video, I'm going to show you how easy it is to take a bed rack from Sherpa, for an F-150, and make it fit a double cab Tundra. At the end of the video I'll show you, I'll give you a walk around, show you how well it fits and I'll spoil the end, I thought I was going to have to modify this rack quite
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a bit and honestly I didn't. I just kind of installed it and it fit perfect. Disclaimer: I don't know if it's going to fit an access cab. It fits a double cab great! It's off label use, but I'll let you guys take a look and let you decide. So this is how it comes. There's a little bag, or box, of hardware there and it just comes with a variety of other pieces. Here are the rails.
There's no instructions on how to put this together, so I'm just going to put it together in
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fast time. If I run into trouble or can say anything insightful, I will. [Music]
So there are six of these feet and you have to attach the little brackets to the bottom side of the feet. The only really insightful thing I can say is that a 13 mm and a racheting wrench, like this helps. I tried using a socket, but there's really just not enough room to get down where you need to get.  There are lots of these available. You can get them on Amazon for cheap. I'll put a link down
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in the description below. The next step is to attach the feet/legs to the side rails on the rack. We have... one, two, and three crossbars. And these are the side rails.
In our application, the cross bars are going to be the kind of the the tricky part, so we're going to attach the side rails [Music] first.
I got the side rails attached to the legs/feet. That's an 11 mm. You can do that with a ratchet and an extension.  And so now I'm going to attach them to the truck and see if the cross
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rails fit.
So I haven't torqued everything down yet I've kept it intentionally (whoops) I've intentionally kept it kind of loose.  The idea is to see if we can make it fit now.
So these are the feet, that attach the legs to the bed, and there's a long side and the short side. The short side has this little grippy texture on it. And so the idea is that you can stick it here and attach it to the feet or the legs, and grip down on your bed.
It comes with the hardware. (Music)... it's a 14 mm.
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My advice is to tighten the right one first and then the left one. If you tighten the left one first, it twists the whole locking [Music] mechanism.
Alright, so I've got the feet in place, the legs in place, I got them all bolted down. They're all nice and tight.
Now for the moment of the truth... let's see if this fits.  As I'm putting this on, I'm noticing that if you're not careful, there'll be a little gap through here, so what I'm going to do, is loosen all of these up so
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I can make them fit a little bit better, then I'll go back and torque it all down and make sure it's all nice and level.  [Music]
So now I've got everything in place. I'm just going to tighten everything down. I put a nut on a bolt with a washer.  What I'm going to do, because I want these arms to stand as straight up as possible and to be as flush with the edge of the of the bed as possible, what I'm going to do, is push these out to where they're about flush
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with the edge of the rails here or the crossbars, and torque them [Music] down.
Alright, so I've got it on and now what I'm going to do is is position this and tight it.  I think I'm going to put this top bolt here and put the bottom bolt there.  I'm not going to film that, but I'm just going to go ahead and move that upward there again this didn't come with instruction so I'm just kind of playing
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it by ear here. The last thing we're going to do is put the Sherpa thing on. I guess they give you some options of like a red background or kind of a silvery background.  So it can either be like this or it can be like this.  I don't know, I think I might like the red better, but I don't know, we'll see. So let's put that on. I'm going with the aluminum.
Alright, so this is the finished product and just to let you guys know I originally installed this in March and right now it's the like the last day of
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June. So I've had it in place for three or four months, just because I wanted to put some miles on it and put some weight on it and just make sure that everything still looked okay. Originally, I wanted to put a rooftop tent on here and show everyone how it fit, and how it it's supported the tent, but um the tent that I want is still in back order. So I'm still waiting for it, so yeah so you can see that's kind of how it is. It's been really, really steady you
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know I've actually tied off tied off lumber and other things to this, and it's done fine. You can see that the support structure of the bed side is right here and this bolts up right next to that. That's exactly where you want it to be. It could not be any closer.  There's really not any room and I kind of didn't want it to sit more in the middle of the bed because I'm afraid it might have dented the top of the bed.  You can't even put your finger
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inbetween the foot here and where the support structure is in the bed. So that's perfect! It looks the exact same way on the other side as well.  The same thing here, so yeah I've been real happy with it. I didn't really have to do anything to make this fit. I thought I was going to have to drill holes and modify it or do something and honestly I didn't really have to do anything. You guys saw how easy it was. So this is a a mid-height bed rack made by Sherpa for a Ford F-150. I'll put a link in the
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description below. I don't know if it'll fit an access cab because it's so close on this double cab. It may, it probably will, but there's just no guarantees. Someone else will have to try it and see. So I'm standing on it now and I'm kind of shaking it. It's rock solid. It's not moving. So anyway, that's it, I hope it helps! I hope this helps a few of you guys with double cabs. There's a link in the description below if you need anything else for your Tundra, Sequoia,
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​4Runner, Tacoma, Land Cruiser, FJ, whatever, hit us up at 1stGenoffroad.com.  Thanks for watching guys! [Music]