Need ideas... constant water drips

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imported_Intel486

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Some of you may have seen my thread about my new truck.



I've got the flareside bed on this truck and it has the tie downs on the outside of the bed and they constantly drop water after I wash my truck (2nd time so far and I've had it four days :D ). I've tried blowing them out with my air compressor during my drying process and still come back later and big streams of water are dripping out of them.



I just went out to see now about 4 hours after I washed and less than a hour since I last checked and guess what... more water dripping out of them.



Any ideas what I should do? When I bought the truck it had bad streaks from them with hard water marks which I already had to remove.



Anyone had any success with some type of inline filter to filter out the minerals from somewhat hard water?



This pic shows the tie-downs pretty well.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/Intel486/Truck/ntruck2.jpg
 
Nice looking truck , can you cover them up somehow . Its hard to tell what they look like up close from the pic.
 
Its always those little you didn't consider when purchaseing. Who would've thought that those tie downs would be such a pain in the A$$!!!

Maybe try covering them when you wash. Maybe like a latex glove that you can snap over them to keep em dry???
 
Ah yes, the ol' chinese water torture :). I'd come from the inside, and drill a hole that slopes into the bed. Bury it so that it comes up into the very bottom of the tiedowns, and water should take the path of least resistance.
 
They have an indentation in the metal of the bed where the tie-downs screw in. Like an outline of the part. It appears the water comes from that area. On my old truck the top bedrail use to leak at the very end after a wash and I guess now it leaks and drains all the water into these tie downs.



I"ll blast it all out with compressed air, then come back 10 mins later and do it again and more water than the first time would come out. LOL... Mabe I should pull all the rails off and seal up the underside or something. lol



Or just save and get the tie-downs shaved ;-) but that'll be some time.
 
Sealing them might be a good idea if you can. They seem to hold a lot of water I wonder if could lead to premature rusting around that area.
 
Intel486 said:
They have an indentation in the metal of the bed where the tie-downs screw in. Like an outline of the part. It appears the water comes from that area. On my old truck the top bedrail use to leak at the very end after a wash and I guess now it leaks and drains all the water into these tie downs.



I"ll blast it all out with compressed air, then come back 10 mins later and do it again and more water than the first time would come out. LOL... Mabe I should pull all the rails off and seal up the underside or something. lol



Or just save and get the tie-downs shaved ;-) but that'll be some time.
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That's what I was gonna say, find a way to get rid of them. How annoying. I'm sure those are handy when transporting things, but the other 364 days of the year they just serve to irritate.
 
I've got the same problem with my '02 F150 and the plastic bedrails holding water. I've gone as far as giving a few hard thumps to it to get the water out or even shaking my truck, but it gets in there really well...



Maybe just one of those Ford problems...
 
Has anyone setup any type of in-line water filter? That would probably be one of my only options. Make sure I'm washing with non-hard water. Any ideas on a system that's not too expensive?
 
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