tonneau covers

[benoit454]

we made one for an s-10 once, 2 sheets of 5/8 osb plywood, a 6 foot 1x12 a bundle of furring strips 1x3's, gallon of liquid nails construction adhesive, staple gun, a tonneau cover we had that was velcro type or you can buy the outdoor vinyl online.

We did sorta like the above, used sheet rock screws to screw the 1x3's to the lip inside the bedrails, they sit about 5/8 little more below the top of the bed rails, cut the plywood to fit inside the rails, stepped in the thickness of the 1x3 like 3/4 inch, and built a frame of 1x3's laying flat, screwed those to the plywood, used the 1x12 to join the 2 pieces of playwood together, not long ways either, across the bed, one four foot by however wide the bed was between the rails the other same distance between rails but as wide as needed to fill the gap from the front of the bed to the other piece of plywood. Then we smeared the glue all over the top, laid the tonneau on it, working out the wrinkles, folded it under and stapled the bottom all around. We laid it on the truck and used a screw in each corner to hold it down, but did consider using lift supports and hinges to let it raise, truck got totalled shortly after building it though.