For my tastes, the 95 is lacking tie down points in the bed. My old Mazda has "D" shaped attachment points in each corner. Each one is held in place by two bolts. They've been sturdy enough to haul around motorcycles and are super handy otherwise.

Has anyone added similar attachment points to their 150? Would love to see/hear different methods folks are using.

Thanks.

 

I would imagine it would be just finding the hooks you want, and drilling them in, but these dont require any drilling http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000NP...&robot_redir=1

 

I'll take a picture of mine when I get out to my truck.

 

Those type of anchors suck, BTW. I had four of them on the corners of my bed rails. The springy clip part stretches out really bad over time and (on mine at least) it was only holding on by the little lips of the holes on the bed rails and it bent them all upward. I took them all off and plan on getting ones that I can bolt in place.

 

Every truck I buy, first thing I do is buy four 1/2" eye bolts and drill 1/2" holes in the floor and bolt them in (big washers). You'll rip the box off the frame before those will let go. Costs about $10

 

^ this pretty much. Have a headache rack in the front and two big eye bolts at the back of the bed.

 

The bed rails I picked up for my 88 are original ford ones and have built in tie downs. I am going to be using them to tie down my 73 Harley.


My 02 F250 has Slide and lock by hi-lift tie downs they work great and are plenty strong enough to even hold my dad's 07 Harley FLSTC fully dressed.
Maybe you can look into those.
Trav

 

Here is what I have at all four corners.





They work great for me since I have a cap on my truck. VERY sturdy.

 

Thanks for the replies, everyone!

 

Not to pick your truck apart, but would those be better suited facing forward as to not get in the way?


I am considering drilling holes but doing it on the front of the stake holes so the tie down points wont get in the way of accessing the bed or while shoveling dirt out. Just a thought...this thread is giving me good ideas.


For points in my truck, I have used the rear bedside holes and then attached 3 eyebolts (with washers on the inside and out) on the truck box going across the bed. So, I have 5 tie down points in a 61"x66" area.