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To Prinsu or Not to Prinsu?

Discussion in '2.5 Gen Tundras (2014-2021)' started by Ron_Pro, Nov 17, 2021.

  1. Feb 12, 2022 at 10:41 AM
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    What the!?

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    Unfortunately I’ll have to offload everything after each trip. Either that or raise the garage door. :)
     
  2. Feb 12, 2022 at 11:11 AM
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    bjp

    bjp Hello, kitty……

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    GoFast Camper, TRD skid plate, Valhalla cat plates, LT265/70r18 Nokian Rotiivas, buncha shit under the seat, you know how it is
    Yikes. That’s a pain.
     
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  3. Feb 12, 2022 at 11:08 PM
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    Do you have a lift/larger tires? Just wanting to compare clearance…3” is close!
     
  4. Feb 13, 2022 at 7:16 AM
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    I’m on stock Bilstein TRD Pro’s with Westcott perches/shims in the front and CB +3 shackles in the rear. Tires are 295/70/18’s.

    It’s definitely close and I can leave the truck outside but it’s peace of mind not having to worry about CA low lifes trying to steal cats, mess with the truck, etc. All about minimizing risk.
     
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  5. Feb 13, 2022 at 8:27 AM
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    VTYOTER Rock

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    35" KO2, METHOD 701, WESTCOTT COLLAR, CB+3, BUMPER SHIMS, CALIRAISED ROCK SLIDERS STEP EDITION, DIAMONDBACK HD
    This gives me hope this spring when I put one on. I’ve got about 6” of clearance now so I think I have enough room to get one on and still park in the garage if I want to
     
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  6. Sep 22, 2022 at 6:15 PM
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    Could of any you with a Prinsu rack for a double cab take 2 measurements for me? Length of a cross bar and also the length of the side panel. Would appreciate it. Looking into building my own rack from 80/20 and aluminum stock. Prinsu even sells the wind deflector separately so may just buy that and use it too.
     
  7. Sep 25, 2022 at 6:31 PM
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    Prinsu on CrewMax - let the professionals do the work on this one. Will be nice for extra storage, light bar, and anything else I don’t want in the bed.

    Do a lot of snowboarding and mountain biking trips with the fam or friends so fully loaded with 4 people and gear it made sense depending on the situation.

    Also have Retrax cover which takes up a little bed space.

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  8. Sep 26, 2022 at 7:38 AM
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    Just installed it a few days ago, haven't had the occasion to use it yet but love the stoutness and ascetics.

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  9. Sep 28, 2022 at 11:34 AM
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    my 2 cents: pull the headliner for drilling. put sound matting up there while the liner is down anyway.
     
  10. Sep 28, 2022 at 12:45 PM
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    Just threw bronze wheels on my silver as well. So dope!
     
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  11. Oct 4, 2022 at 12:17 PM
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    Could someone with a prinsu cab rack for a crewmax please measure between the bottom of the cross bars and the top of the roof at the shallowest point? Looking to see if I could fit solar panels under the rack, in between the roof and the rack. Maybe towards the back as I probably won’t block the sunroof. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
     
  12. Oct 4, 2022 at 12:23 PM
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    Pretty sure the cross bars are 54” for both the double cab and crewmax. Just bought two extra for my crewmax from tnutz. They’re cheap but shipping from Canada is brutal.

    honestly, if you can hold off to BF, I’d probably wait and see if cali raised off-road has a big sale and order it through them. I’d be willing to bet they will. CBI usually does too. With the cost of aluminum, your time, and a potential decent discount in Black Friday, it might not be worth it. I’d number crunch this one for sure.
     
  13. Oct 17, 2022 at 6:31 PM
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    Any tips to quiet this thing down? If I’m going over 60 and there’s any wind, this thing is howling. Appreciate the help in advance
     
  14. Oct 18, 2022 at 4:07 PM
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    Ummm, let's not forget another important detail... being able to have ice cream in the desert.

    When we bought our trailer 6 years ago I was loading up for our maiden voyage and it suddenly hit me... "Holy Shit, I have a freezer. I should take ice cream!"

    It's kinda' become a tradition ever since. :rofl::)

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  15. Feb 18, 2024 at 5:40 AM
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    Just installed my prinsu rack yesterday with some direction from this thread and wanted to just add my .02 while its fresh in my mind.

    Overall I found this install very tedious. I had help from my brother who has way more patience that I do and it took 8 careful hours overall. I watched prinsu's own tutorial video which made the install look very easy but early in the install I could see they really glossed over the tedious bits.

    First of all if you are going to tackle this yourself get a couple more items: two sided tape and adhesive remover. I also bought loctite not realizing they had packaged some with the kit.


    -They didn't show in the video the stock molding has adhesive. It took me a good while to get that cleaned off the molding and in the channel.

    -I had my brother drop the headliner so I can't give exact tips on this process but I could see it was a PITA putting it back together.

    -Drilling wasn't exactly the hard bit, it was making sure we had the holes in the right spot. Probably moved the partially assembled rack in place 5 or 6 times just to make sure the holes were in the right spot. One thing I'd suggest is starting to two forward holes slightly foward toward the windscreen. When we got to the back, there is a factory welded "hook" for the rear trim piece. The last mounting point for me was but up against that and I wasn't sure if we'd even get to mount there given how close to the hook we got.

    -One of the more frustrating parts for me was trimming the weatherstripping. We got to the home stretch and we couldn't get two of the bolts into the rivnuts due to me cutting the weatherstripping a hair too big. At this point we had to take the spacers out which had our RTV on it causing huge messes all over the paint and hands.

    -speaking of mess, I don't see how its possible not to get rtv over everything unless by some miracle you get everything lined up perfectly. I probably spent 30 - 40 minutes throughout the process wiping up rtv.

    -the prinsu weather stripping for the front plate is crap. I don't' know how they expect that to just stay on unless you use adhesive. maybe i missed something in the directions but i'm not using it for now.

    -i didn't see anyone post about this but the rack is interfering with the satellite radio. I need to look more into this but on my ride home it kept cutting out

    -I don't see how you can safely do this without dropping the headliner. So much shavings get into the hole and even with a magnet there is a good bit that is still there.

    -we used a thin piece of steel with magnets on it to catch shavings and it worked decently well.

    Please excuse my scattered thoughts on this, still pretty exhausted. Overall I'm happy with the look, concerned about leaking in the future. Not sure I'd do it again but time will tell. Few pics incoming...
     
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  16. Feb 18, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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