how-to secure a chest box?
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Nutsert/Threadsert on the floor, then run bolts. That way it won't be a two person job tightening the bolts and nuts, AND you won't have the gas tank in the way for tightening.
Basically nutserts and threadserts are rivets that are threaded. Drill your hole, set your nutsert in the hole, take the rivet gun thingy and crimp it, DONE! Set your box on the bed, run your bolts, finished. You can get 'em up to half inch......All you really need is 3/8, 4 of 'em.
Basically nutserts and threadserts are rivets that are threaded. Drill your hole, set your nutsert in the hole, take the rivet gun thingy and crimp it, DONE! Set your box on the bed, run your bolts, finished. You can get 'em up to half inch......All you really need is 3/8, 4 of 'em.
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When I had mine I just used 4 of these, one in each corner. I had a decent amount of weight in it and I take turns pretty hard and usually don't go to slow over speed bumps and never had an issue. Just make sure you don't use ones that are too long and drill into your gas tank. I use a drill to get them to drill the hole and go down, and then tighten them by hand.
Self drilling sheetmetal screws
Self drilling sheetmetal screws
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When I had mine I just used 4 of these, one in each corner. I had a decent amount of weight in it and I take turns pretty hard and usually don't go to slow over speed bumps and never had an issue. Just make sure you don't use ones that are too long and drill into your gas tank. I use a drill to get them to drill the hole and go down, and then tighten them by hand.
Self drilling sheetmetal screws
Self drilling sheetmetal screws
OP do you have any pics of your box? my old one was really small and i want one that can go across most of the bed.
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Set the box where you want it, drill your holes through the bed and box, move box, throw in the nutsert into the bed floor, line up box, run bolts, done! Easily removable, no fear for chewed up hole from the self tappers that'll eventually strip and loosen up. And....it'll look finished when the box is out of it. Preferably, your nutserts would be on the raised part of the bed floor. But that's kinda common sense. lol.
Here's the 'cheap mans' tool......which works, but is a pain in the butt with bigger sized blindnuts/threadserts/nutserts. I've been using them on alot of things on my truck...absolutely love them!! Got 'em on my roof now, my toolbox, a-pillar grabs, step bars, maybe other places. I'm wanting to buy the tool reallllly bad. The inserts come in brass, aluminum, and steel....I think aluminum is the only kind you can use with the cheap tool.
I wish I knew about them when I put that windshield rack in my old 2006 duramax.....bolts were a PAIN!!
Here's my stepbars where I used the rivetgun tool thing...
Set the box where you want it, drill your holes through the bed and box, move box, throw in the nutsert into the bed floor, line up box, run bolts, done! Easily removable, no fear for chewed up hole from the self tappers that'll eventually strip and loosen up. And....it'll look finished when the box is out of it. Preferably, your nutserts would be on the raised part of the bed floor. But that's kinda common sense. lol.
Here's the 'cheap mans' tool......which works, but is a pain in the butt with bigger sized blindnuts/threadserts/nutserts. I've been using them on alot of things on my truck...absolutely love them!! Got 'em on my roof now, my toolbox, a-pillar grabs, step bars, maybe other places. I'm wanting to buy the tool reallllly bad. The inserts come in brass, aluminum, and steel....I think aluminum is the only kind you can use with the cheap tool.
I wish I knew about them when I put that windshield rack in my old 2006 duramax.....bolts were a PAIN!!
Here's my stepbars where I used the rivetgun tool thing...
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Shano, man thanks a lot...And everyone else for input, truely.
Um I have a plastic bedliner, should i drill 4 holes that are gonna be bigger than the bolts, so i can get to them easly?
Um that big azz bolt cutter looks expensive, I'll check it out today when im at lowes. Gotta get some paint stripper to remove the spray bedliner i used on the toolbox, dont like it.
Um I have a plastic bedliner, should i drill 4 holes that are gonna be bigger than the bolts, so i can get to them easly?
Um that big azz bolt cutter looks expensive, I'll check it out today when im at lowes. Gotta get some paint stripper to remove the spray bedliner i used on the toolbox, dont like it.
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well I went to Lowes to day, they didnt have them, nothing close. Ended up getting some self tap screws.....
Dang it took forever to get that bed liner off the toolbox, i bought some paint thinner it worked pretty good, then a pressure washer worked even better. Then my GF had a can of goo gone, that works best. Now got to run it back to the pressure washer place and get it cleaned up for the finale!
Dang it took forever to get that bed liner off the toolbox, i bought some paint thinner it worked pretty good, then a pressure washer worked even better. Then my GF had a can of goo gone, that works best. Now got to run it back to the pressure washer place and get it cleaned up for the finale!
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Never drill a hole bigger than the fastener you are installing. Especially if you are securing something down. It needs to be the same outside diameter as the fastener, or one step down from that (depending on the fastener itself). If you are using self tapping screws, you don't have to drill a hole. All you should have to do is maybe take a nail set and make a small dent for where you want the screw to start at.
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well, bought some self tap screws with rubber washers. It worked just fine, secured nice and tight. When i screwed in the screw on the driver side, i noticed a puddle that was running under my truck, dang I though I hit something, looks like it was just water under the bedliner that was seeping out and dripping off the screw tip......
Shane where did you get them rivets and rivet gun?
I might get a floormat later, or spray in, but for now it works
Shane where did you get them rivets and rivet gun?
I might get a floormat later, or spray in, but for now it works
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