RTT on Chevy 1500 5ft bed

[rural]

Looking for mounting options. Would prefer to keep it below the roofline a little, but high enough to fit a Gunner Dog kennel under it? similar to the tacoma bed racks.

Been out of the game for a while and getting back in.

Could also do a yakima bedrock and mount a hardshell tent on that and let the pup stay in underneath? maybe safety would be an issues, may just let him stay in the cab restrained while driving?

 

[swrider]

Same boat as you are in right now. The only good option i found was to find someone in town to fabricate a simple rack that would mount on top of the truck bed using the stale holes. I could not find anything that was made for a Chevy capable of holding the weight of a rtt and the people on it.


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[Raul B]

I would go with a frontrunner rack.... they make specific bed kits for fullsize trucks now. You can PM me if you have any specific questions about it. I ran one on my truck for about a year.

-Raul

 

[rayra]

5'? The short bed is closer to 6' than 5'

You can almost certainly find a utility rack that would work. But if you want something sechsy to go with the RTT fad, you'll likely need something purpose-built.

/All these RTTs, I never realized we had so many dingos in North America.

 

[ennored]

My setup

Some Unistrut and some small pieces of 3" channel (to raise it off the rails) is all I used. Front crossmember has a small leg that goes down into stake pocket. Back one just sits there. There are two bars that go between them (fore/aft on the truck). The tent is bolted to those.

 

[Stryder106]

I was in the same boat - but I wanted to go high enough to be able to load on top of my caps. The bed of the Avalanche is a tad over 5' also. I drove out to Frontrunner - but they wanted a lot of money and I stood on their rack and it was flexing quite a bit with me on it (#240) - so that didn't give me a whole lot of confidence for a RTT plus me and my GF. Ended up fabbing my own.

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[chilliwak]

Some nice looking fabrication work there Stryder. Cheers, Chilli..

 

[swrider]

Nice Fab work Stryder!
As for the Frontrunner rack, they are nice and sexy, but the cost of having something that nice just so you can hide it all under a RTT seems wasteful to me. It's still probably cheaper to fabricate your own for this. When i have sufficient funds for a RTT it'll be what i do.