Re: Torchered
Looken pretty good. The bed is welded in place. Wheel wells are chopped and being prepped to be welding in. i thought I would give a little more info on how they are doing these mods:
The bed: I have seen some very clever ways to raise your bed. This is what they did. The bed sides where mounted to the front and rear floor beam. Then mounted on the frame as if it was a stock setup. 1" box tube was set ontop of the c notch with the floor set ontop of that to help set it level . They then took 1" square tubing to make a frame that would weld to the inner bed side. This created a lip to set the bed floor on. After the frame was tack welded up the floor was installeds and tack welded.
Rear wheel wells, They removed the top of the wheel well. shaved off two inches and split it into two peices. Rewelded the top on which now created the top corners of the Wheel wells. A donor wheel well provided the center filler plate.
Supports from the frame to the bed floor will be installed as well as removable tray that will house the air system.
This week the tail gate will be installed and tail gate handle smoothed.
Last edited by RustenPaines; 06-14-2011 at 04:50 PM.
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