hey you guys I don't know where you guys find the energy I want to show you a
couple of things I've done to my truck to make things a little more convenient
and to make it a little more likely that you'll be able to hang on to your tools
first thing I did was this cool box I bolted through the tool box down through
here and I put you know nuts up under here is little hard to reach up this far
but anyway if you don't bolt this down everything else you do just doesn't
really matter and then there was this whole area up here that you couldn't do
anything with because there was no wall so I stuck a 1x4 up in here so now I can
put tools in this little pocket here then I put these eye bolts through on
both sides so I can chain my tools up in the bed and I'll be there when I come
back out of Home Depot because you might not believe this but people still
there's a couple other things I'm doing here try to be real steady doing this
them two holes there I got they're not threaded they're just
holes I got them there there and two more up under the toolbox on on the wall
and there's the same on this side so there's six holes that go all the way
down here but again they're not threaded and what they were for is this
aftermarket add-on thing they want you to buy that makes like a rack in here
you can lay lumber on or whatever you know you can lay a piece of plywood and
then put luggage on it and this rack has pins that go into
these holes so what I've done is take my tap and die and and tap those holes to a
5/16 and I'm not going to use both Sachs ladies
what I'm going to get is some 5/16 eyebolts screw them in here and I'll
have more places to chain and lock tools and then this I've had this done for a
long time but I had a 2x8 in there this is a 2 by 12 and that will keep things
from sliding forward when I need them to stay back here and the last thing if
something forward did which I mean I expect this if it were a Chevy or god
forbid a Dodge but this is a Ford this little gap here when you drag things out
of the bed it hooks on this this plate it's that it goes the whole face of the
tailgate here and this is just the inner workings of the tailgate behind that so
every time you drag something out of the bed you hook this lip and you bend it up
a little more a little more and a little more and I finally I had to take a
hammer and beat it all back down level and then drill and put all these little
tiny screws in there to hold that thing down and so that should cure that that
was a really stupid thing for it did must have been that a Dodge engineer
that they hired to do this anyway I'm going to tap that now I show you how
it's done alright I got that oh don't wiggle I got
that thing just balancing on that 2 by 12 all right here we go let me show you
what this looks like put together that's a tap it's a
it's how you thread things that have no threads and you can also clean threads
that have been messed up or cross threaded and here I'm going to bring us
home no I can't do it that well this is a craftsman set that I've had for I bet
you I've had this 30 years yeah 30 years or more this has been with me longer
than longer than my wife that's a long time anyway let's get entered here yeah
I always want to put it in the hole if you don't start straight you'll ever
crooked hole and as you're doing it you want to wiggle it back and forth to get
the little little particles to go into the channels and I'll show you these
little channels and a second but I've already started this and I got a I gotta
finish it or else I won't be able to find the threads again if this were real
hard steel I would use some kind of cutting oil but it's just mild mild
steel that they use on all trucks nowadays you can dent these daggone
things is pushing your finger in on it and we dine for two hands
all right well that's what that looks like now we back it out and I'll show
you those channels that as you're cutting these threads the metal flakes
fall down into these channels see that and that's why you have to as you're
screwing it in you have to wiggle it back and forth to get all the metal
flakes to go into that channel already that's threaded I'm going to do this one
and I don't have the eye bolts yet but one of these days I'm probably going to
get them tomorrow my life needs to go to Walmart so I picked up my bolts up and
but I'm going to go ahead and put this video up you all know what I bolts look
like thanks for watching I went ahead and did this second one but I kind of
want you to see the flakes in that channel as this works so I'm going to
try to hold my hand steady and zoom this in way in and maybe it'll focus not yet
huh
isn't that weird it wants to there we go you see the flakes in that channel
that's how that works
this is just for people who have never done this all right you get the idea now
all right that's it this time I really mean it
thanks for watching