DIY Bed Divider

[scottjl]

Not my original idea, saw a photo of it elsewhere and decided to build my own. Sharing my build instructions after someone else asked me for them. Lots of room for tweaking. Gotta love the FlexBed! Total time, about a hour for me with table saw and power tools.

Materials:

• Two 2x4" 6' or longer pieces of wood
• 6-20+ 6" deck screws

Tools:

• Screwdriver (hand, power)
• Saw (hand, power)
• Drill (Pilot holes makes things easier)

Assembly:

1. Cut two 54 1/8" pieces from the lengths, optional cut corners from one side of a length. I have a lined bed, for bare metal bed you might want to go slightly longer. Test that the long boards fit in and out easily before proceeding, you may need to trim a little off. Better to start longer and shorten as needed.
2. Cut one, or more, 4" pieces from the remaining wood. I used 5 total.
3. Place all the pieces flat, small pieces between the lengths. Put one piece at each end, then space rest along length as you desire.
4. Drill pilot holes into edges of lengths where you will be putting spacer blocks.
5. Screw from edges into the spacer pieces. You can get away with one screw but I used two from each side.

Optional:

• Cut corners off edges to allow divider to rest against bed, or leave corners to have divider float 1/2" above bed.
• Stain, paint, weather treat wood, or use treated wood.
• Affix eye bolts or hooks along length of bar to affix bags, straps or other items to.
• Add cut material, rubber, etc. to ends so they don't scrape sides of bed.
• @k2rizzle pointed out some nice hooks that work well with this. https://a.co/d/ehdnsBF
• Screw in feet (or similar) can go on bottom to lift from bed, or sides to adjust width to fit.

Emergency uses:

• Fuel for fire.
• Weapon.
• Stakes for defense against vampires.

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[MrShadetree]

Looks great. Would look fantastic if Line-X’d.

 

[Eggflipper]

Very nice. I may have to copy that.

 

[Joylove]

What are the seatbelt-looking things here? Retractable straps?

 

[Hot Runr Guy]

Place all the pieces flat, small pieces between the lengths. Put one piece at each end, then space rest along length as you desire.

So my OCD is wondering, why isn't the middle block centered?

Sorry, HRG

 

[scottjl]

What are the seatbelt-looking things here? Retractable straps?

Yep

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPC98PN4

Full list of mods here:

https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/forum/threads/my-mavericks-story.64655/

 

[scottjl]

So my OCD is wondering, why isn't the middle block centered?

Sorry, HRG

Hmm, yeah, might be a little off. Offsets the weight distribution of the rear license plate being on the passenger side.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

 

[Eggflipper]

Yeah, it balances the license plate being off center. That’s what I’d go with.

 

[MavStangVa]

So my OCD is wondering, why isn't the middle block centered?

Sorry, HRG

That would drive me insane. Engineering background makes my brain hurt sometimes

 

[Sginn]

Mine wouldn’t work because I have Tonneau cover. The double stack 2x6 wouldn’t slide in. I just put one 2x6 on top of other. Same result, just not as pretty. Good job! My hard cover is a Rough Country.

 

[lm126027]

Looks great, but can't put any kind of divider in my Mav as I have the Ford storage box on the left side.

 

[MrPnut]

Not my original idea, saw a photo of it elsewhere and decided to build my own. Sharing my build instructions after someone else asked me for them. Lots of room for tweaking. Gotta love the FlexBed!

Materials:

• Two 2x4" 6' or longer pieces of wood
• 6-20+ 6" deck screws

Tools:

• Screwdriver
• Saw (hand, power)
• Drill (Pilot holes makes things easier)

Assembly:

1. Cut two 54 1/8" pieces from the lengths, optional cut corners from one side of a length. I have a lined bed, for bare metal bed you might want to go slightly longer.
2. Cut one, or more, 4" pieces from the remaining wood. I used 5 total.
3. Place all the pieces flat, small pieces between the lengths. Put one piece at each end, then space rest along length as you desire.
4. Drill pilot holes into edges of lengths where you will be putting spacer blocks.
5. Screw from edges into the spacer pieces. You can get away with one screw but I used two from each side.

Optional:

• Cut corners off edges to allow divider to rest against bed, or leave corners to have divider float 1/2" above bed.
• Stain, paint, weather treat wood, or use treated wood.
• Affix eye bolts or hooks along length of bar to affix bags, straps or other items to.
• Add cut material, rubber, etc. to ends so they don't scrape edges of bed.

Emergency uses:

• Fuel for fire.
• Weapon.
• Stakes for defense against vampires.

This looks great and you have skills that I don't. I installed a TMat system in the bed of my Mav and it works great for me and gives a little more flexibility to arranging stuff in the bed.

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

This looks great and you have skills that I don't. I installed a TMat system in the bed of my Mav and it works great for me and gives a little more flexibility to arranging stuff in the bed.

That's a great system. I had never seen anything like that.

 

[lm126027]

Have the Ford rubber mat over my spray-in liner. Does help keep things from moving around somewhat. Though hard stops will still send stuff flying. lol

 

[MrPnut]

That's a great system. I had never seen anything like that.

Thanks! It really makes accessing stuff in the bed much easier for an old geezer like me.

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