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Don't be so modest, You are a metal magician! very nice work as always. I cant wait to see the finished bed. You da man!

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i just read your build , everything looks awesome in great detail . now i need to crush mine and start over. ha, cant wait to see how the bed turns out. thanks for some good reading. :ito:

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anything going on?

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Oh yea, been working on it. Just tonight I finished welding the second inner bed side.
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well don't hold back

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Any new pics? If I ever have free time (what's that?), I still wana stop up again and see it.
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Any up dates on this biuld

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Well guys, I had a very long summer house project that STOLE all my truck time, but I'm gettin back on 'er! I was out in the garage today, so ill be posting up some progress pic song enough.
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Just read this entire thread. Beautiful work! Looking forward to any and all updates.

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Man I thought there was an update, dang I guess I will wait.. Love this project, awesome work!

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WOW....nice build...

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subscribing

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sorry guys, nothing new lately. Still trying to find time to work on this. Currently working on inner bed panels. I've got one welded in. Will post some pics soon.

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You are such a tease ..........!!!!!!

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i just went all the way back through your build thread....love your work, lets see some progress !

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here's a little update while I watch cars going in single file at daytona:(

More work on the inner bed panel:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8385/8...40e3bc0f_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8090/8...ca678aac_c.jpg

had to modify ends of outer bed panels

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8383/8...c4399014_c.jpg

At this point, I brought the inner bed panels to a fabrication shop that had an 8 foot break to but the 90 degree flanges on the top of the inner panel.Then I spot welded them in. Also took the header panel to the shop and had them shorten it and put a flange on that also. Here are pics of the start of the bed structure. Using 1" square stock with 1/8" wall.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8369/8...42d423f5_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8104/8...a2ed69d1_c.jpg

watchin the race:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8098/8...f704528a_c.jpg

Here is a close-up of how the body lines of the inner bed panels still match up with the modified wheel tubs.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8517/8...b5d5e11c_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8513/8...0ac90f5b_c.jpg

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Beautiful work!

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Your an animal man.
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there you go. now don't stop lol

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Awesome job how much did you have to take out of the wheel tubs

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3 inches
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sweet

http://images.theturboforums.com/ima...ies/welder.gif

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too COOL, glad you are back at it !

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Man, its been a long time since my last post. Since my last update, I've completely redid the bed frame. I had to some clearance issues, so I rebuilt it out of 1x2 steel tubing instead of the 1x1 I started with. Probably overkill, but nice peace of mind.

The whole bed is shimmed 1/8th inch, so when its time to do final alignment, I can go up or down with it.

Here is an overall shot and another of the front bed mounts. It has size mounting points. Two in front, two off the step notch, and two in the rear.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5473/1...e8e2542a_c.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5478/1...0673f655_c.jpg

This shot shows where I tied the front bed mount into the frame with a reinforcement that ties the upper and lower rail together.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3819/1...9ede537e_c.jpg