Install Bakflip G2 with Ford Bedliner
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Install Bakflip G2 with Ford Bedliner
LOVE my G2 now but installing the G2 into an F150 with afactory plastic bed liner is NOT thesame as other installations and requires some tweaking. I watched all of the videos and read all ofthe threads I could find and still struggled for hours with the installation. My hope is to pull together helpful bits of information from other sources with a few tricks of my own to provide a detailed step by step guide which I hope will save you time, headache, and frustration.
1. It is unlikely that your G2 will fit without modifying the bed liner. For extra clearance, remove the rectangular foam pad from theend of the G2 rail. Place the G2 cover rail over the truck bed rail. The slotted metal bracket goes toward the inside of the bed at the bulkhead. Hold the rail in place and slowly close the tailgate. You will see that the rail strikes the tailgate bed liner section. Mark with a pencil, loosen the 2 Torx head screws on the liner, and cut a notch in the tailgate bed liner. Tin snips work well. Repeat for the other side. Don’t be comfortable if the tailgate seems to close with one rail in place. It won’t when both rails are attached! Save yourself the headache and cut both sidesnow. A Bak Industries video talks about(but doesn’t demonstrate) cutting the liner at the bulk head. This seems like a really bad idea to me and fortunately I didn’t need to. I would have cut the last ¼ in of the G2 railoff before I would cut into the top of the bed liner at the bulkhead.
2. Place the G2 rail over the bed rail as before and attach with the clamps provided as described in the instructions or any number of YouTube videos. There is no need to notch the bed liner itself in order to accommodate the clamps. They won’t be perfectly perpendicular (as they would be without the liner) but you will find a “sweet spot” where the clamp fits nicely against the liner and clamps tightly to the rails. I installed all three clamps just tight enough to hold, and then tapped the rail forward with a hammer and block of wood. It does help give you extraclearance. Tighten those clamps the rest of the way.
3. Attach the G2 cover as described in the instructions and by many other videos/threads. This is the easiest part.
4. Now for those drain tubes! You have factory installed drain plugs at the front of the bed. They are black plastic, oval shaped, and I’m guessing about 4-5 in long. You have a liner so crawl underneath the truck between the bed and cab to locate the plugs. From under the truck, push in the 4 smallside clips holding the plug in place. The plugs will be loose now so just turn them sideways and carefully remove fromtheir holes. Don’t lose the plugs inside the bed.
Now take a leather punch or some other pointed tool (I used a small pick) and, from underneath the truck, push through the bed liner. This will mark the location of the hole youare going to drill in the bed liner for the drain tube. Climb inside the bed and drill a 3/4 in holein the bed liner angling down towards the drain plug hole. A key hole saw worksbetter than a wood bit. Now you will be able to see through the hole in the bed liner down through the drain plug hole. Based on the angle you can easily estimate the location of the hole to be drilled in the drain plug itself. Drill a 1” hole in the drain plug.
Reinstall the drain plugs. Climb back under the truck and locate the drain plug holes. Insert the drain plugs back into their holes, first at an angle, and then pull towards youto engage the 4 small clips. You may have to climb into the bed and push a longscrew driver through the hole in the liner to get the clips to engage. You should hear them click.
Now attach the drain tubes to the rails and feed through your hole in the bed liner, the hole in the drain plug, and out between the bed and the cab. I borrowed an idea from this forum and used silicone to seal the small space around the drain tube as it passes through the bed liner.
That’s it. Congratulate yourself on a job well done!!
1. It is unlikely that your G2 will fit without modifying the bed liner. For extra clearance, remove the rectangular foam pad from theend of the G2 rail. Place the G2 cover rail over the truck bed rail. The slotted metal bracket goes toward the inside of the bed at the bulkhead. Hold the rail in place and slowly close the tailgate. You will see that the rail strikes the tailgate bed liner section. Mark with a pencil, loosen the 2 Torx head screws on the liner, and cut a notch in the tailgate bed liner. Tin snips work well. Repeat for the other side. Don’t be comfortable if the tailgate seems to close with one rail in place. It won’t when both rails are attached! Save yourself the headache and cut both sidesnow. A Bak Industries video talks about(but doesn’t demonstrate) cutting the liner at the bulk head. This seems like a really bad idea to me and fortunately I didn’t need to. I would have cut the last ¼ in of the G2 railoff before I would cut into the top of the bed liner at the bulkhead.
2. Place the G2 rail over the bed rail as before and attach with the clamps provided as described in the instructions or any number of YouTube videos. There is no need to notch the bed liner itself in order to accommodate the clamps. They won’t be perfectly perpendicular (as they would be without the liner) but you will find a “sweet spot” where the clamp fits nicely against the liner and clamps tightly to the rails. I installed all three clamps just tight enough to hold, and then tapped the rail forward with a hammer and block of wood. It does help give you extraclearance. Tighten those clamps the rest of the way.
3. Attach the G2 cover as described in the instructions and by many other videos/threads. This is the easiest part.
4. Now for those drain tubes! You have factory installed drain plugs at the front of the bed. They are black plastic, oval shaped, and I’m guessing about 4-5 in long. You have a liner so crawl underneath the truck between the bed and cab to locate the plugs. From under the truck, push in the 4 smallside clips holding the plug in place. The plugs will be loose now so just turn them sideways and carefully remove fromtheir holes. Don’t lose the plugs inside the bed.
Now take a leather punch or some other pointed tool (I used a small pick) and, from underneath the truck, push through the bed liner. This will mark the location of the hole youare going to drill in the bed liner for the drain tube. Climb inside the bed and drill a 3/4 in holein the bed liner angling down towards the drain plug hole. A key hole saw worksbetter than a wood bit. Now you will be able to see through the hole in the bed liner down through the drain plug hole. Based on the angle you can easily estimate the location of the hole to be drilled in the drain plug itself. Drill a 1” hole in the drain plug.
Reinstall the drain plugs. Climb back under the truck and locate the drain plug holes. Insert the drain plugs back into their holes, first at an angle, and then pull towards youto engage the 4 small clips. You may have to climb into the bed and push a longscrew driver through the hole in the liner to get the clips to engage. You should hear them click.
Now attach the drain tubes to the rails and feed through your hole in the bed liner, the hole in the drain plug, and out between the bed and the cab. I borrowed an idea from this forum and used silicone to seal the small space around the drain tube as it passes through the bed liner.
That’s it. Congratulate yourself on a job well done!!
