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Old Mar 25, 2025 | 07:40 PM
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Sealing between bed toprail and cap

The A.R.E. Z2 cap finally arrived and they're want to schedule the install.

Here's my question to the team...what are the recommendations for sealing between the bed toprail and the cap to prevent (as much as can be prevented) water incursion?

I'm skeptical of plain sponge rubber since it compresses so badly. There's got to be something better out there. What say y'all?

TIA.
 
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Old Mar 25, 2025 | 07:45 PM
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On my f150
I used a bulb seal 3/8 around edges
thrn a pickup to cap flat sponge type seal on the inner edges.
only leaks I had was from water blowing in under bed rails ,,,not cap to bed seal
 
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