Re: Can't seem to find a tonneau cover for my 76 Warlock.
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Just have one custom made by an upholstery shop. I had one custom made for my D150 20 years ago and its still in great shape and the cost wasn`t much more than a store bought one.
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Re: Can't seem to find a tonneau cover for my 76 Warlock.
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Just have one custom made by an upholstery shop. I had one custom made for my D150 20 years ago and its still in great shape and the cost wasn`t much more than a store bought one.
Interesting, were the receiving buttons welded onto the truck or are there rails under the cover?
Thanks for the pointers everyone.
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Re: Can't seem to find a tonneau cover for my 76 Warlock.
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Just have one custom made by an upholstery shop. I had one custom made for my D150 20 years ago and its still in great shape and the cost wasn`t much more than a store bought one.
I've had a few made over the years because the aftermarket industry has totally overlooked our trucks
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Re: Can't seem to find a tonneau cover for my 76 Warlock.
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Interesting, were the receiving buttons welded onto the truck or are there rails under the cover?
No, they're screwed on. Similar to how my truck was done when I bought it.
I found someone locally who made custom frame tonno covers and had one done. He's since gone out of business i think.
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Re: Can't seem to find a tonneau cover for my 76 Warlock.
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Pop rivets hold the snaps in place, a little note on why the snaps are so far from the top of the body. I took it to a friends upholstery shop originally to have it done , well he didn`t custom make it he bought it from a catalog and put it on and put the snaps were they are now " TOO LOW". I took it to another shop a few months later and he custom made the one on there now. The one on my Hemi Q.C. has the rails that attach to the top of the bed, I bought it from Summit, I think its an Extang and haven`t had any problems except when its cold its hard to pull the cover to snap all the snaps.
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Re: Can't seem to find a tonneau cover for my 76 Warlock.
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Just have one custom made by an upholstery shop. I had one custom made for my D150 20 years ago and its still in great shape and the cost wasn`t much more than a store bought one.
Interesting, were the receiving buttons welded onto the truck or are there rails under the cover?
Thanks for the pointers everyone.
The rails attach to the inside of the bed. The cover rolls out and attaches to the rails with a special velcro. No snaps or plastic tabs to mess with. They show pics on the web site.
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Re: Can't seem to find a tonneau cover for my 76 Warlock.
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I did have to drill holes into the top of my rails to attach the covers rails The issue was a regular pickup bed has a under rail area for things to mount and hide without drilling, a step side does not have that as the under rail part is on the outside of the bed.
That IS an issue. Fortuneatly I found a bedrail clamp that I could modify to use the sideboard screws on my LRE and didn't have to drill the top rail. Not a fix for a regular utiline though.
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