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Can i replace the whole rear with a truck bed
I have a 72 with alot of bad body work in the rear and I found a near perfect truck bed. and I think it would be easier to cut it from behind the door jambs and replace the floors and all in one shoot.
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Re: Can i replace the whole rear with a truck bed
Yes, but you will have to take a section out behind the wheel wells and weld it back together and you will also need to cut the front off and weld a Blazer front floor section on.
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Re: Can i replace the whole rear with a truck bed
If it is a swb it will be much easier, but the cross sills are different on pickup beds than on blazers at the frame mount locations. The sills on a blazer are recessed. I used my orginals and welded them in.
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Re: Can i replace the whole rear with a truck bed
I wanted to find a short bed but a local guy has a mint long bed for $400 I am thinking or waiting but thats a good price to have a perfect rear clip for my truck.
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Also, long bed wheel well arches are different. Short Bed and Blazer are the same.
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they only sell one replacement wheel arch though. not a swb/blazer one and a lwb one?
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Its true but no big deal. Not a show truck. Just an old junk 4x4 that is going to redone in 2wd with rack and pinion steering, flip kit in the rear and an 02 ls1 with a matching auto trans. I put a pic of the rack set up I will use.
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its going to look pretty cool with that suspension
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Does anybody make replacement cross sills for the blazer?
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Not to my knowledge, may have to try and salvage original ones.
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