RollBak installed
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From: Cocoa, FL
RollBak installed
Got the RollBak cover installed this weekend. Took about a month for it to arrive. Ordered it online, free shipping. Took an hour to install it with basic hand tools.
It is possible to lift the 90 lb cover and set in on the brackets by yourself, but not recommended. My neighbor stopped by to see what I was up to, so I gave him a beer, and I got him to help lift it into position. The rest of the install was very simple.
I'm very impressed with it so far. Materials look good, it operates as smoothly as the video implies.
As others have said, it is NOT waterproof. Right after it was installed, it rained hard for over 2 hours. The bed of the truck did have some water on it, but I couldn't see where the water had entered. Not a real concern for me, not looking for a watertight cover.
Camera lens had water on it, no water was visibly dripping from the cover.
At times, it was raining so hard that it was almost a white out!
I have a bedmat on top of the bed, so I lose about 1/2" of clearance. Between the floor and the bottom of the case that houses the rolltop cover is 13". I found a storage box at Walmart (auto section) that tightly fits under this, and should keep my tools, air compressor, etc, somewhat dry. Clearance between the bed and the underside of the rolltop cover is 20.5". That's enough for my Yamaha EF2400iS generator, gas cans, bikes, cooler, blah blah, to fit with the lid closed.
The rails had a second set of stops that could be set at any position. The first set is all the way closed. I set the second set at the 1/2 way mark, allowing the cover to be 1/2 closed.
Not cheap, about $950, but does exactly what I need.
It is possible to lift the 90 lb cover and set in on the brackets by yourself, but not recommended. My neighbor stopped by to see what I was up to, so I gave him a beer, and I got him to help lift it into position. The rest of the install was very simple.
I'm very impressed with it so far. Materials look good, it operates as smoothly as the video implies.
As others have said, it is NOT waterproof. Right after it was installed, it rained hard for over 2 hours. The bed of the truck did have some water on it, but I couldn't see where the water had entered. Not a real concern for me, not looking for a watertight cover.
Camera lens had water on it, no water was visibly dripping from the cover.
At times, it was raining so hard that it was almost a white out!
I have a bedmat on top of the bed, so I lose about 1/2" of clearance. Between the floor and the bottom of the case that houses the rolltop cover is 13". I found a storage box at Walmart (auto section) that tightly fits under this, and should keep my tools, air compressor, etc, somewhat dry. Clearance between the bed and the underside of the rolltop cover is 20.5". That's enough for my Yamaha EF2400iS generator, gas cans, bikes, cooler, blah blah, to fit with the lid closed.
The rails had a second set of stops that could be set at any position. The first set is all the way closed. I set the second set at the 1/2 way mark, allowing the cover to be 1/2 closed.
Not cheap, about $950, but does exactly what I need.