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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    good thinking there tyreguy. Pressurizing the space works better than any seal job
    I put a roof vent on a horse trailer that opens front or back, open as a scoop and the inside stays clean
    Some rv roof vents open at the front for the same reason, as do rally cars
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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    Just make sure you breathe through your nose
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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    This solved any dust coming in my Tacoma tailgate and also the slight gaps in the upper corners, where the back Canopy hinged window met the top corners of the tailgate. Excellent product.
    https://www.amazon.ca/Ultimate-Tailg...ailgate+gasket

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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    Thanks for the replies. Let's see here...

    So I think the foam tape the crap out of every gap (TexasWalker's idea) idea would work. However, at risk of sounding like a jerk, it would look too ghetto/mickey mouse for my liking. It's a nice newer Tundra with a nice newer canopy. I'm just not going to have foam tape stuck everywhere.

    Edzzed, I read the article on vortexs/airfoil. Makes sense and I bet it would work. But I'm not sticking am airfoil on my Tundra and having it look like a drug dealer truck. Thanks though.


    Skullhunter, my box is bare metal but I have a fitted rubber mat on the bed floor. Love it! Nothing slides around any more.


    Tigrr, I am mostly inclined to do this. Stuff rags in the gaps and if its a long trip on dusty roads then masking tape the rear window and tailgate.

    Also I like my own idea of tossing a big old blanket over all your stuff. Most of the dust will just settle on the blanket.

    Also interested to try tyreguy's idea of cracking a window a bit. Makes sense! Do you think it matters if one cracks the sliding window at the front of the canopy, or one (or both) of the rear windows a bit? I'm not sure if it matters but my rear windows tilt out, they do not slide back/forth. My canopy is a Jason Cyber.

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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    Side windows will work. If you do the front one it will probably fill up with dust.
    I figured this out years ago when I went fishing and had our belly boats in the canopy - by the time we got to the lake there was like 1/4" of dust all over everything. I also tried sealing it up but you'll never fill every crack, and I think I found the open window by accident as it slide open by itself on a later trip.
    open them about 1"-2" if sliders and it will work, or crack the wing type open a bit and you'll be good.

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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    Think about it the same concept as when a smoker cracks the window while driving and it sucks 95% of the smoke out of the vehicle.

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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    Quote Originally Posted by captain_baculum View Post


    If not perhaps I'll just throw a big blanket over everything and shake it out when I get to my destination.
    That, and crack a window.

    And try and seal as much as you can.

    The majority comes up between the inner fenders of the box and the outer fenders of the box and drops in under the top rail. Boxes aren't that simply built, it's the inner and outer that vacuum the dust in.

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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    So I've been experimenting for a few months with this concept and I think I have it figured out.

    Tried cracking the side windows a bit on my canopy, did not work at all. Maybe it's just my canopy? The windows do not slide back/forth, rather they tilt in/out. Seemed like cracking the windows out a bit just let in MORE dust. Who knows but it did not work for me.

    What DID work is packing a cooler(s) and or tall tote(s) against the tailgate. This allows me to take a big moving blanket and stuff it between my closed tailgate and the cooler/tote. I just open the canopy hatch and stuff it in evenly along the bottom then try to stuff it evenly so it pretty much has my tailgate sealed off. Obviously an old comforter or whatever will do the same job.

    This seems to keep out 95% of the dust. When I open my tailgate after driving along the dusty road the blanket has a lot of dust on it! I give it a good shake out and fold it up.

    So yeah seems like sealing up the tailgate is the key. If you don't have coolers/totes or similar to sandwich the blanket in then this would not work so well. You really need to seal the tailgate up from top to bottom.

    At first I was just doing this, but I could tell my stuff still had a bit of dust on it. To remedy this I have a couple old crappy sheets. I just throw them over my gear after the truck is all packed up. Whatever little bit of dust gets past the moving blanket sealing off the tailgate will settle on top of the old sheets.

    I don't drive on super dusty roads that often but when I do this combo works well for me.

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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    What we did and helped a little bit was on the truck box by the tailgate did not do this on the tailgate we got that spray yellow foam and sprayed on the side of the truck box and then after it dried cut off some of that yellow foam. Still got a little dust in but not as bad.
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    Re: Keeping dust out of canopy?

    Quote Originally Posted by boxhitch View Post
    good thinking there tyreguy. Pressurizing the space works better than any seal job
    I put a roof vent on a horse trailer that opens front or back, open as a scoop and the inside stays clean
    Some rv roof vents open at the front for the same reason, as do rally cars
    YES sir you got it air in dust out

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