Bed liner installation

[jaekl]

I recently acquired a 88 Comanche to hold me over until I fix the deer damage on my 86 Cherokee. This is a great little truck. I eyed them when I bought my Cherokee new but wished they had an extended cab version. Well now I have both. Since I'm well acquanited with XJ, I only have a simple question at this time.

Does anyone have a dealer installed bed liner? I found an unused over the rail liner (with "Comanche" molded in), however, the six mounting holes are below the top rail. Is there a special type of fastener to retain the bed liner?

Thanks for any advice.

[skimore11]

I have the "comanche" bedliner in my MJ. I bought the truck used and did not install it and have not taken it out but from what I can see... I have 3" diameter wholes near the four corners with access to a nut (screw head in the liner) It feels like there is a piece of sheet metal as a washer that goes up and grabs the lip of the bed. Make sense?

[87manche]

I bet those are the same hols that my cargo hooks are in. If you take out the tail light assemblies then you'll see the mount for the cargo hooks. They go in and have a nut on the back to hold them in. I wonder if you need a mounting kit for the bedliner that uses those same mounts to hold it in. I'm sure once you see the mounts you can figure it out.

[Eagle]

Does anyone have a dealer installed bed liner? I found an unused over the rail liner (with "Comanche" molded in), however, the six mounting holes are below the top rail. Is there a special type of fastener to retain the bed liner?

Thanks for any advice.

That sounds like the factory bedliner. The holes are about 1-1/4" diameter? The retainers are black plastic screw/plugs that engage the underside of the bed rail when they are "screwed" (twisted) into the holes. My brother's Nissan with a Duraliner uses the same retainers, so you may be able to find them somewhere.

[Windowsrookie]

Does anybody know where to find these retainers? I've just got the bedliner sitting in my Comanche now, but would like to mount it down somehow.

[jaekl]

Wow, you dug this one out of the past. I finally saw a generic bed liner retainer clip. It was a plastic cam type that would wedge under the bed rail. Someone actually had some 'AMC' clips on ebay but the picture didn't explain much and were very small.

 

Anyway, I got 4 drawer locks from a hardware store and opened up the 1/2 inch hole in the liner to accept them. The barrel holds the liner down and the lock bar goes behind the bed rail flange. This arrangement gives me access to the cavities in front and behind the fender well.

[Eagle]

Does anyone have a dealer installed bed liner? I found an unused over the rail liner (with "Comanche" molded in), however, the six mounting holes are below the top rail. Is there a special type of fastener to retain the bed liner?

Thanks for any advice.

Yes, there is a special fastener. That's the same type liner and fastener that was on my brother's Nissan. The fasteners are a large, black plastic twist-in thingie that goes into the hole and then turns either 90-degrees or 180-degrees to lock the liner to the rail.

 

My '88 MJ has the same liner, and came w/o the fasteners. I've been driving it for about 8 years and haven't had any problems with the liner trying to blow away.