WA may bs thread
#152
05-20-2012, 10:49 AM
Hello everyone. Last day in Spokane. Looking forward to the drive home. I'm irked the race was last night. I was hoping to listen to it during my return trip. Oh well...at least I know I can get cell coverage (Pandora!)
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05-21-2012, 12:15 AM
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Well i hope everyone had a good sunday, mine was pretty good up till about 25 minutes ago. See it has been raining all day today and some of yesterday. I figured "oh my tarp will do fine out there", the next morning (this morning) i go out to check and i find a puddle forming in the low spot of the tarp. I figured "yeah ok that is going to happen, the low spot is collecting water of course." I drain the water out and straighten it back out, then i go off to my friends house. About 2pm or so i left, he lives right down the street so i didn't drive, we get done playing out video games and card games and such and i head out, once i get home i figured i would take one more peek before going in for the night to make sure everything is Kosher, It wasn't. The passenger side had slipped in a bit so the inside part of the truck got soaked and the driverside was about to go down. There was about a foot of water pooled up on the tarp pulling it down. Meanwhile it is still raining. I will mention directly behind that puddle is an amp bolted to the top of my sub that has constant 12v from my battery. It is fused in but still. It wouldn't have taken much to have one bungee cord slip or break or whatever for it to fall in and get EVERYTHING wet. These bungee cords on both sides
These saved the sides from caving completely in. That and the 2 hooked from the back to the bumper helped as well. Well i had to unlatch the tailgate and pull the tarp up as i let the tailgate down and once it was down i let the water drain out onto the tailgate. I had no choice, overall it worked out and i'm sure there isn't much water on the inside but i won't know till tomorrow. Tomorrow my plan is to go back up to Harbor Freight and buy a bigger tarp. Mine was the cheaper one at walmart and happens to be way too small. The bigger ones are less expensive at HF.
But overall it was a pretty good day
These saved the sides from caving completely in. That and the 2 hooked from the back to the bumper helped as well. Well i had to unlatch the tailgate and pull the tarp up as i let the tailgate down and once it was down i let the water drain out onto the tailgate. I had no choice, overall it worked out and i'm sure there isn't much water on the inside but i won't know till tomorrow. Tomorrow my plan is to go back up to Harbor Freight and buy a bigger tarp. Mine was the cheaper one at walmart and happens to be way too small. The bigger ones are less expensive at HF.
But overall it was a pretty good day
#158
05-22-2012, 08:46 AM
Well i hope everyone had a good sunday, mine was pretty good up till about 25 minutes ago. See it has been raining all day today and some of yesterday. I figured "oh my tarp will do fine out there", the next morning (this morning) i go out to check and i find a puddle forming in the low spot of the tarp. I figured "yeah ok that is going to happen, the low spot is collecting water of course." I drain the water out and straighten it back out, then i go off to my friends house. About 2pm or so i left, he lives right down the street so i didn't drive, we get done playing out video games and card games and such and i head out, once i get home i figured i would take one more peek before going in for the night to make sure everything is Kosher, It wasn't. The passenger side had slipped in a bit so the inside part of the truck got soaked and the driverside was about to go down. There was about a foot of water pooled up on the tarp pulling it down. Meanwhile it is still raining. I will mention directly behind that puddle is an amp bolted to the top of my sub that has constant 12v from my battery. It is fused in but still. It wouldn't have taken much to have one bungee cord slip or break or whatever for it to fall in and get EVERYTHING wet. These bungee cords on both sides
These saved the sides from caving completely in. That and the 2 hooked from the back to the bumper helped as well. Well i had to unlatch the tailgate and pull the tarp up as i let the tailgate down and once it was down i let the water drain out onto the tailgate. I had no choice, overall it worked out and i'm sure there isn't much water on the inside but i won't know till tomorrow. Tomorrow my plan is to go back up to Harbor Freight and buy a bigger tarp. Mine was the cheaper one at walmart and happens to be way too small. The bigger ones are less expensive at HF.
But overall it was a pretty good day
These saved the sides from caving completely in. That and the 2 hooked from the back to the bumper helped as well. Well i had to unlatch the tailgate and pull the tarp up as i let the tailgate down and once it was down i let the water drain out onto the tailgate. I had no choice, overall it worked out and i'm sure there isn't much water on the inside but i won't know till tomorrow. Tomorrow my plan is to go back up to Harbor Freight and buy a bigger tarp. Mine was the cheaper one at walmart and happens to be way too small. The bigger ones are less expensive at HF.
But overall it was a pretty good day
Just a thought...
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05-22-2012, 05:46 PM
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After enlarging the picture can see the tarp is too small, but even with a larger tarp ... I think the water will still want to pool forward of the rear seats. A possible way to prevent this is to set a 2x4 down the center from the top rear of the cab to the tail gate to form a ridge style tenting. The water should run off the back and over the sides and not have a chance to pool.
Just a thought...
Just a thought...
