[Chuck78]

Can anyone tell me what the bed mounting hardware looks like? Like I said, all I have are the cab mounting bolts and the rear most bed mounting bolts, which look to be a carriage bolt. All of the bed mounts in my truck that go under the wood bed are missing the bolts. I have all but one of the rubbers, but two of the rubbers are not in place (one I found on top of the gas tank). I just wondered if they were a standard grade 5 or grade 8 hex head bolt or something, or if there is anything special about them.
I got a set of 60-66 bed mount rubbers in the mail today from Brother's, but when I compared them to the mounts in my panel truck, they are maybe half the thickness of the panel truck's, and also square (originals are rectangular), smaller hole, and no fllange that locates te rubber through the large hole in the body mount bracket off the frame.
What am I missing here?

I again put my 6 foot level across the bed, and it seems that the center of the bed over the axle (where the bed support crossmember sits directly on the frame with no rubber mounts), the bed there definitely is a good half inch higher, than in the front or rear, or else the rear of my frame rails is bent down nearly an inch by the bumper!
Makes me wonder if the truck got rear ended, or if in fact the rails are bent. That'd be heck to try and straighten then! My buddie's garage has a basement under part, I can envison jacking the rear of the truck up slightly by the very back of the frame rails, and then at the axle, drilling through the concrete floor, and using some 1/2" threaded rod attach to the frame at the axle to pull it downwards...

If it were less of a difference, I would be inclined to think maybe that all my rubbers had just deteriorated, but they seem to be 1/2" thick, which seems reasonable.

My bed wood is not original, it is two pieces of oak plywood. I doubt the factory bed wood would have a recessed notch in it for the bed crossmember that sits directly on the frame with no rubbers, but who knows...
Between the bed wood and the bed side inside sheetmetal, I can see an 1/8" gap beteen the bed wood floor and hte sides of the bed, rear of the wheelwell, but the body is sitting pretty straight otherwise. That crossmember that sits directly on the frame goes between the wheelwells, and the wheelwells (inner wheelhouse I think it's called) could be flexing quite a bit to take up the slack from the much stiffer body, but this mystery is still confusing me.

Any and all advice much appreciated!

Thanks,

Chuck