Bed can hit cab and cause damage

You answered your own question. Bend it back. Shops straighten frames all the time

 

Bending metal will always make it weaker than original.

 

What makes you think the frame is bent?

 

From the poster:
The composite bed when molded has two protruding points that are only 1/2” or less away from touching the truck cab, a follow YouTuber flexed his truck enough to cause those bed protrusions to damage the trucks cab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4doKyWZUFMs

 

I’m skeptical that those nubs on the composite bed would hit the cab of the ‘22 Tundra, even under spirited off-road use. My ‘21’s bed and cab have never made contact, despite running off-road trails out west at 40-50mph. I was even loaded up over GVWR (gasp!!). I’ve also had my truck (which is open C channel in the rear) in plenty of off-camber situations offroad with a rear wheel barely touching the ground or in the air, and my frame and bed have never looked as twisted up as that open C channel HD truck in that pic.

 

Don't doubt that. Just stating that it is repairable

 

This has 2 be fake, tell me it is.

 

Way more than a 1/2" from the nub to the back of the cab because there's an indent in the cab right at that spot. More like 1".
The nub is the end of the rain gutter and seems designed to keep water out of the box.

 

Thanks for posting this. Yeah, I've got a good inch of space there also. I looked at mine last night but didn't get a picture.

 

Just a tip but best to start with a zoomed out photo first, then the close-up for detail. Hard to get oriented and tell what we're looking at with the zoomed-in version alone.

 

What have I learned after reading through this thread? It's Toyota's fault for making the 2nd Gen Tundra too wide for the trail, which caused the mirror, door and bed to hit a tree......

 

Unacceptable!

 

Lulz!!

 

Yep, they screwed up the 1st Gen's like that too.......

 

We need to see a build thread from you

 

I have detailed build threads on Expedition Portal, Tundra Solutions and Pirate 4x4 under the user name "01tundra", unfortunately when Photobucket decided to be asses I lost all the linked pictures in the treads.....

 

Oh, wait did you have that crazy clown avatar on TS? The one from a Rob Zombie movie?

 

I've used Imgur since then for picture sharing.

 

Most likely not. I looked in his channel and he's got a lot of off-road toys. I understand his concern and I would do the same thing than risk damaging the back of the cab. We'll see as more people buy this truck and put them to wide variety of uses.

 

yep!

 

That caged Ramcharger tho…..

 

Well shoot man, glad you still have your truck. I learned a lot from watching you and a few others carve up perfectly good trucks.

 

I actually sold it and bought an '03 Tacoma to chop up, been trying to buy the Tundra back, but haven't had any luck yet.....

 

Oh man. Maybe dyogim is the last solid axle truck around from that time then.

 

It's just some plastic, I'd consider cutting it too.

I mean what could it cost, $10?

 

They are sending engineers out to look at that trail ASAP. They will then investigate to see if all trails are the same or that was just a poorly made trail.

 

Yet ANOTHER 22 FAIL!!! LOOOOOOLLLLLL YOTA SUCKS BAWLZ NOW.

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