Bed Rail Caps

I need to remove my bed rails caps and put them back on so I can properly add yakima tracks to my rails, is this easy to do?

 

the rail caps? Those are just the little plastic caps on the end of the track? You just squeeze em and pull.

 

Which bed rails are you talking about? The plastic at the top of of the bed, or the plastic at the end of the slider track?

 

ok, and then I can re-install them? I don't want to break them I simply need to see where I am drilling

 

oh, you mean on the top of the bed edge. I've not had those off. I bought a rack that used our factory bed rails so I didn't have to remove or drill anything.

 

The plastic side rail caps.

 

what rack did you buy and can you use it with a tonneau, I have a BakFlip installed.

 

I'm assuming you mean the circled yellow, not the orange. The orange would be our "bed rail caps"

 

I bought a ROLA. It does not work with a tonneau installed.

 

The second pic, the top cap is what I want to temporarily remove.

 

Actually the second picture is what bed rail caps are.

 

I'm betting the 3rd gen is very similar to the second gen.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/whats-under-our-plastic-bedrail-cover.171513/#post-3567845

 

Sorry, it's not. Toyota themselves call the track the "bed rail system". The bed rail caps are the little plastic endcaps that stop things from sliding out.

Toyota calls it a "bed protector".

 

The plastic that sits at the top end of the bed (what you have circled in yellow) are called bed rail caps.

Do a google search for "truck bed rail caps" and see what pops up.

 

See above. I know that's what most people would call a bed rail cap. I'm saying Toyota doesn't call it that.

 

lol Regardless of what Toyota calls it, the regular term is a bed rail cap, and that seems to be what the OP is referring too - to get back on topic.

 

Agreed. I posted a link earlier to a second gen truck with pics talking about removal. It seems there are two clips to pop out on the vertical surface and then you just pull up

 

Easy to remove. Just get a pry bar (or anything really) underneath and slowly pry up. I took my off in a tonneau/rail cap switch

 

OK so another question, if I wanted to drill the top of my bed rail, through the plastic cap, to install my rack does a template exist that I can use to guide me away from the existing holes?

 

It goes back on right?