[Jacfourteen]

Well this thread has been long overdue for an update so here is some of the progress that has been made since then. I entered the truck in the under construction class at the Gold Rush Car Show, so I went to the cruise-in and the show had a good time and met some cool people including a few board members. Here are a few pics:









If you want to see more pictures of this show and cruise I started some threads here: Show, Cruise-in

Then after the show I cruised the truck as is bedless for a while, it was fun driving without it because it was so light that I could spin the tires anytime I wanted up to about 50 MPH. Then I needed to put my truck back to work so I needed to get the bed back on. The easiest way to get the bed back on the truck was just to shorten the front section so that the wheel tubs would line up with the tires and deal with the rear section later. After looking through all the threads on here I decided to shorten the front in a similar fashion to how LFD did it (you can read his thread Here). There are pros and cons to each method of going about this, but I chose this route because it allowed me to get rid of the gas door that is no longer necessary. So here goes the pics...

First I had to get the bed where I could work on it, this is how I did it by myself without a hoist:

Where it had been sitting


Ready to go on the truck


After I rolled it on the truck


Back to where I wanted to work on it


And back off



Ready to get to work


Up next, lay out and cut...