How to mount an AD bed to an S-10 frame
 

Just thought I'd share how I mounted my bed to the S-10 frame. Hadn't seen this done before, we actually tackled this job before I started looking around on the net for ways to to the S-10/AD swap. It might not work for everyone, but it worked for me.

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The bed I'm using for this project was from a 55 1st series, with the flat topped bedsides. It was in great condition, all but the front panel. With using the S-10 frame I had to raise my bed floor in the bedsides. I lost a little over 5 inches of bed depth doing this, but my body is mounted much closer to the frame than most of these swaps, mostly because this is supposed to be a low buck project.

Either way, here's what I did: I had a pretty much complete reproduction long bed of the '47-53 variety. It was parts of a parts lot I bought a while back. I used the rear most cross sill, plug welded it to the front panel and bolted the panel in place with the bed sides. Then I put the bed in place using scrap wood and a couple floor jacks to build the front mounts. The rear bed mounts are just hangers I built off the rear frame that go to the original rear cross will. I'll post pics of that soon.
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Here's a close up of the brackets I built, and how the cross sill sits on it

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Rear hanger is hard to see. Original rear cross will is still in its original location.

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The bar pictured here will be what the bed wood now sits on. The gap below will have a filler panel. We opted to use the '47-'53 tailgate as well so as not to have too big of a panel to stare at when the tailgate is down.

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for the tailgate situation i think a member on here had similar issue yours has. he shortened the tailgate and just made it drop down where the level with the floor

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I used the '47-'53 tailgate for mine. The small panel that will be hidden behind the tailgate will have an access for the spare tire carrier on the S-10 frame. Since I intend this to be a daily driver, the spare tire will be a necessity. So i took this as more of an opportunity to hide the hole than an inconvenience.
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