Keep in mind the queen size bed still sleeps perpendicular to the camper so factor that in on whether you want to touch the camper sides.
Mine didn't have a slide out but had the 4' over cab, which is now called the extended overcab, so I added a slider which makes it a king size bed sleeping parallel with the camper.
Luckily mine did have the piece of aluminum in the frame which the rails attach to so no work their was required (other than opening up the panel to confirm they were there) but if they weren't I would have added wood supports in the wall to screw into instead of the aluminum frame. Biggest headache if the support isn't there is going to be getting into the driver side wall since the cabinet is in the way.
Some pictures of the bed rework start on page 2 here and are intermixed with the other work I was doing at the time:
http://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/index.php?/topic/1640/page__st__10
Rich/Pods8,
Thank you for the detail on the fleet/ranger. Super-nice rigs, by the way!!
Based on all the advise above, we decided we might be better off holding out and seeing what else pops up on craigs list in the next few months. It seemed like this particular fleet refurb. might be too much work for two newbies.
We are really psyched to learn about the fleet and ranger models. Those weren't even on our radar screen, simply because we had no idea that they would work with a tacoma. The extra room makes a lot of sense.
Question, on the head room. If I read the comments on FWC web site correctly it sounds like the switch to 6'4" on the head room happed a year or two ago. Does everything before an 08 model have 5"10-11" of headroom or does it differ from model to model and year to year? Being 6'3" it would sure be nice to have something somewhat close to my height and if there are models years that have more head space I'll definitely plug that into the equation.
Thanks for humoring the dumb questions!
SLB