Tricks to dumping RAIN WATER from bed?
 

This is my first Truck Truck (have always owned Expeditions) and my 2015 XLT Sport bed is filled with water.
Other than the obvious pegging the speedometer while driving up hill, whats a good way to drain the water? Preferably while at a stand still.

Park on an incline. *The steeper the more betterer.
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Pegging the speedo is not required to get rid of the water.
At the stand still you need to jack up the front end.
I would not recommend drilling holes.

Put a cover on the bed.

Lift weights and get strong enough to lift the front end and dump out the water.

Good idea on the incline parking.

Hookup a hose to the bed and use it for ecologically correct watering.

Plug all the holes and use it for a hot tub, using the seat coolers as the heat source.

I was thinking of an automatic bilge pump! :thumbup:

Scott

Unless your purchase came with a very good tailgate seal the bed shouldn't hold that much water. If there is a tailgate seal did you try opening the bed? :thumbsup:

Must have a drop in bed liner?


My '14 does not hold water.

It's just water dude.

Chicago style unload. About 10 mph in reverse and lock up the brakes.

Is this for real?

Hah my 14 holds water it's super annoying

I honestly don't see what the big deal is. You drive down the road, no need to floor it or anything, and the water comes out of your truck. If you don't look in the rear view mirror, you wouldn't even know it was there.
Wow.

Do nothing, water evaporates.

I think the answer is pretty obvious: open up a mobile swimming pool.

I apologize if I wasted anyone's time with reading my silly thread. With this being my first truck, and living in Florida where it rains a few times a day almost every day, combined with not driving the truck everyday, I was just curious if there was a way to have the water drain more efficiently.

Thanks to the few comments/ ideas to help.

You did not waste folks time! Gives us something to read!

We have a 96 Ranger and live North of Seattle! Our street as is our driveway both have a little bit of an incline! The Ranger gathers water regularly! A LOT of water which you most certainly feel!

We've learned to simply park the truck so the water can run out the back in the rainy season.

The F150 has a hard folding tonneau which blocks 99.9% of the water from entering the bed so no worries there!

Scott

Water in the bed isn't hurting anything so no reason to do anything about it.

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I park like this so no water builds up. Works well!!

Looks like a good time to check the brakes and steering!

Move to California.

If you don't drive it much get you some little blocks of wood are plastic ramps and just park on those to keep the front end up. Or it's a excuse to get a nice bed cover or camper 😎

Actually, May be on my way to Arizona or Hawaii depending on work.

Holy crap I almost spit water out of my nose. :jester:

Just don't spit it in his bed, already too much water there.

Lol, this was a fun read!

Boy your just asking for it with this kind of question!.. Lol .. I've taken a broom to mine and swept it out, parked it in the sun for a couple of days, and drove it up a hill to dump the water out. :party:

For everyone taking it as a joke I actually looked at it as a serious question... Maybe the joke is on me.

When I had my bed line-x'd it would not drain water. If I knew it was going to rain I would leave the tail-gate down. but the times I didnt the bed would fill (with whatever amount) and not drain until I opened the tail gate. Which made it fun when I left it up during a tropical storm/hurricane in NC.

I looked into removing the front bed plugs... but they were line-x'd over and I didnt feel like cutting.

I've since added a tonneau and dont have the issue anymore.

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Simple and effective

TY Sir. Ill have to look into a tonneau cover then. Im going to wash it for the first time today and will see if there is any easier way to let it drain through holes or plugs.

Definitely get a tonneau cover. Not only does it look great, but it will keep your bed dry... I've got one on mine and love it

ABN.. I was not trying to be insulting with my post. My brother left me his 1997 F-150 in his "Will" when he died this year, and I have the same problem with rain water.

With that said, I really don't worry about it, I guess, because of the bed liner in the truck. I have not thought much about the water rusting the bed really. I wouldn't drill any drain holes in it either, just let the sun do the trick and let it dry out in a few days. I just got a stupid reply to one of my posts from a dude that was really insulting in a way, and I only was implying that I could see and did see replies to your topic that was kind of, well, not helpful. I'll try and be more helpful in the future.

JJ

When my truck cap is not on and I know its gonna rain...I park on a incline...There are a lot of really rugged tuff bed covers out there for cheap money. Easy on..easy off.

Mine has a drop in bed liner and holds water. I have given thought to drilling a couple of small holes in the liner where the drain holes are in the bed.

It holding water has not been a problem so far but I can see where it might cause problems depending on rainfall and something being hauled that should not sit in a puddle.

And honestly if it had not come with a bedliner I'd have never added one. I always kept a sheet of plywood back there with a 2x4 screwed onto it to keep things from sliding around.

And to stay on topic,the water that accumulates in the bed just rolls out the back when I go up the driveway or down the road.

You guys are killing me here. So instead of the water sitting in your plastic bedliner, you would rather drill holes to get it in between the liner and your box? And, something sitting in the bed that shouldn't get wet, never should have been there in the first place. Has nothing to do with water sitting in the bed.

Woah... Not at all. I was just making a comment that many were providing joke/funny related responses (which you find a lot of at this site) but Having had the experiences of water not draining from the bed wanted to offer them up.
If it looks like I took offense at anything - I clearly need to work on my writing or add more smilies :)

I'm with 262. I'd never drill holes in the bedliner to drain the water to have it rest and slowly drain through the sheet metal seams. Have an 02 SuperDuty that I have a rubber mat in and did not religiously pull it out to clean the dirt out from under it. It now has a very soggy bed floor as it's rusting out rapidly.

I brakestand to 5000rpm and let off the brake and the water just rolls out the back.

Disregard... Misread a post

Maybe I should have posted this in the 2015 Forum. Not really worried about the aluminium body rusting, just looking for some ideas to prevent the bedliner from storing water. Thanks for the ideas, fellas. I think im good.

I just relized your in FLA...there an't no inclines to park on...Isn't the front of bed where the floor of the bed connects has factory gaps to drain...if it bugged me I'd lift the liner and drill a couple 1/4" holes in the liner and replace it. Make it drain.

That's what Im saying....Are you serious Clark???

While this is a functional solution, the concern I'd have is the same thing I had with a bed mat. Dirt would get under it and plug the drains. If you don't regularly pull it up and clean it, it holds water and rusts the bed. It's the "out of sight out of mind" issue.

When I bought my '12 used from a dealer I got him to put a liner in for me. First thing I did when I got it home was pull the liner out to make sure the bed was clean. (Actually, I detailed the whole damn truck!) Sure enough, they just dropped the liner in with a bunch of dirt and crap in it. (Leaves, dirt, a pencil and about 13 cents in spare change.)

Buy a couple cement pavers from the local hardware store and put the front tires on them when you park it.

Move to Vermont...they have one square mile of 'flat' land in the whole dam state...
(I love stupid threads)

I wasn't able to get the swimming pool option on my truck. Lucky guy.

No offense. I just wanted to be clear that I'm a newbee here and didn't want to get off on the wrong foot! LOL.. Thanks for understanding and I look forward to your help in the future.
JJ

Cant wait to shovel the friggin snow out of this thing in the winter y'all.

My new truck cap goes on tomorrow JMS...no bed shoveling for this yankee...

To everybody saying don't drill, why? If you drill a hole no bigger than 1/4" and clean it up it shouldn't be a problem. You can buy spray paint with color match to blend the hole with the original paint. The harderst part would be making sure the bottom of the hole is clear and burr free. Being aluminum it won't rust, but it can/will deteriorate. Mother nature reclaims everything.

If you were to do a spray in bed liner instead of a cap, I'd make sure the holes were drilled before you got it done as that stuff should seal the metal edges well enough that you shoudln't have any issues. I've srilled holes in my bed for draining water before. It's not bad at all so long as you do it correctly. Clean the holes, then paint over them and don't worry about it anymore.

It's water.

But its wet water, that stays in the bed.......some help you are!

Damn, you're right again.

I want to know how to keep my tires dry while I drive in the rain.

I don't use my truck very often, and moving my car out to get the truck out so I can dump the water is a drag. I didn't worry about it until I started getting a ton of mosquitoes. That's not good for anybody.

Since I haven't seen any ideas how to deal with it, looks like my old beater is gonna get a cover.

Park the opposite way that is collects so it drains instead.
Or you can fix it like our dump trucks so we park them with the bed up and tailgate open :cool:

Holy necro-resurrection. Just drill a 1 inch hole in the bed except don't go into the gas tank like I did.

Seriously though, my bed had slots up front and I had it sprayed when I bought it but opened up the slots a bit with a substitute Ford slot opener tool # PA-186356, otherwise known as a big screw driver.

1 inch? That's massive. I wouldn't drill bigger than 1/4 inch. Pick two spots on the front of the bed floor. Check underneath for anything you might hit. Make sure you paint the open holes to prevent corrosion.

Too small of a hole plugs with 3 pine needles and a little pollen.
I still say turn the truck around so it doesn't hold water :unsure:

Mine had slots up front.

If it is a drop in liner I'd just drill a couple of holes in it as the bed itself should drain. Or do like I did with my old truck and park with the tailgate downhill. I also liked that filled with water at times. After a good rain I would lower the tailgate, drive in reverse and hit the brake. This flushed the bed of most of the leaves and pine needles that had built up over the week.

Leave it and the tires won't spin. :-)

When I wash my car, my drop-in liner causes the water to move toward the front and fail to drain. I have to back onto the yard which has a downhill slope. The paver idea was pretty good, you just have to raise the front a little.

What I have always done: put it in reverse with tailgate down and go fast, then slam on breaks. If you're backing down hill it helps.

That's what I did when I had a drop in liner. It also gets most of the leaf litter and pine needles out of the bed.

Koo Koo water I say

To be honest this sounds like a stupid question !
like all the other responses also agree its a brain dead question.
think it through.... & you may achieve your answer !
well ....maybe ...since you are asking this question ....

I'm late to the party. I'd recommend the speed holes. When you have water in the bed, they become drain holes. No water = speed holes. 'Nuff said.

My Silverado's bed never held water... thanks to road salt :D

Buy a tarp. Free swimming pool

Can't believe this thread has gone 7 pages.

Where I live, we always have a bit of water in our truck beds.


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Believe it bub.