How to Seal Your Tacoma’s Bedrails

Let’s face it - truck beds were never designed to be weatherproof. In this video we tackle how you can treat your Toyota Tacoma’s bedrails to prevent water and dust intrusion, before your camper gets installed. There’s lots of different approaches to sealing your truck’s bedrails - What’s worked for you?
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[@WizardGravy]

Man, I wish I would have known this before installing my Snug Top 😑

[@Chubbydippin]

Good walkthrough on the how and why. I've often wondered what the bed and inner side walls on the bed look like years after the typical hard plastic bed liner has been there hiding any potential water damage. The hard plastic factory Tacoma bed liners are nice but do, I'm thinking, hide what's happening out of eye site.

[@tribalsean]

What?! No comments? Well I'll fix that.... Great video! Thank you for the informative weather sealing tricks of keeping water and dust out. Appreciate my X1 immensely. Keep on keepin on, fam!

[@superpacific_usa]

Thanks Sean!

[@joshuaalley6270]

Great video. Thanks for helping me think through this problem.

[@superpacific_usa]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gabesvidz]

i will use you methods to seal my 3rd gen before i put a snugtop on it. Thanks

[@superpacific_usa]

Right on 💪

[@HM-vu9zw]

The Toyota part numbers are 62542-04010, and 62541-04010 they will probably help a lot but some of the other things you do are helpful also hope this info helps 👍

[@Ja_youtube_Ja]

Thank you so much.

[@superpacific_usa]

Sure thing!

[@HM-vu9zw]

Toyota makes pieces to fill in the gap you’re talking about in the video. I’ve used butyl tape before that’s a good idea. Good video full of good info and ideas.

[@jaron808]

can you link to the Toyota product?

[@arcmodo]

They do make those pieces, but it requires cutting the rails if your truck didn't come with the factory tonneau cover. They also cost around $60, so this is a much more cost effective solution.

[@andys9480]

I followed your steps and sealed my rail caps, how ever my new issue is I get adhesive/dirt-tracking down the outside of my truck in different areas every time it gets wet from rain or carwash.. Any thoughts or suggestions?

[@Alvisr7]

Hey! How is the seal holding up??

[@HM-vu9zw]

It would be easier to put the closed cell foam in place if you took of the header rail off 🤔

[@PNWXOverland]

The proper way to remove the bed rail caps is to pull the very rear were it narrows and just pull up and work.your way back. No tool needed. NOW HIRE ME, IM FROM BEND!! 😂

[@Alvisr7]

So start from the rear near the tail gate of the truck ?

[@DSD]

So... would/should I need to do this on a GMC Canyon? I currently have a bakflip on it and seems like (or I thought) the dust was coming through the tailgate not the sides. Is there a good list of all the things we *should* do on our vehicles before we get there? I did get the email that said swap the antenna and stuff like that but not much else. I did get the caps for the pocket holes - just want to make sure I do the things I need to before I get there. Plus I don't think I'm going to be taking this thing off once it's mounted (although in a pinch I suppose I could). I'm 37 days out...

[@superpacific_usa]

Every truck model is slightly different so you'll want to research specifically for your model, but the same concepts we cover here should apply. Sealing around tailgate is a topic we hope to cover in another video!

[@DSD]

@@superpacific_usa but that one I can do after the fact correct?

[@superpacific_usa]

@@DSD Correct!

[@heartlloyd47]

Can you please link the butyl sealing tape you used?

[@sarahjconti]

I'm switching from a tonneau cover to a canopy on my first gen taco. since it has the tonneau it doesn't have the plastic bedrails, would you say I need to buy them to be able to seal it? Or do you think I could just tape the holes and use the bulb seal?

[@Elliotdoe12]

Have you guys tried this with a F-150 at all? I just tried to remove my bed rail caps and broke most of my clips in the process…

[@superpacific_usa]

So far we've only done this on Tacoma's.