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**HOTFUN** · 08-05-2004, 10:57 PM

Not sure why you are going with this unbolting the floor out. The rear cross sill under tailgate area on a metal floor box is the complete floor and has small tack welds in the rear corners to the box sides. So basically there is no taking the metal floor out and leaving the box sides in place. Once you have unbolted the floor from the sides and have the tack welds cut you simply unbolt the t he handfull of bolts to the front bed panel and you have 4 major pieces. floor with wheelhouses , left and right bedsides, and one front bed panel.
A wood floor can be disassembled leaving all 4 sides in place as the rear cross sill channel is bolted and tack welded to the sides.

Mark

08-05-2004, 10:57 PM	#3
HOTFUN Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Posts: 2,154	Not sure why you are going with this unbolting the floor out. The rear cross sill under tailgate area on a metal floor box is the complete floor and has small tack welds in the rear corners to the box sides. So basically there is no taking the metal floor out and leaving the box sides in place. Once you have unbolted the floor from the sides and have the tack welds cut you simply unbolt the t he handfull of bolts to the front bed panel and you have 4 major pieces. floor with wheelhouses , left and right bedsides, and one front bed panel. A wood floor can be disassembled leaving all 4 sides in place as the rear cross sill channel is bolted and tack welded to the sides. Mark __________________ '66 CST BBW swb fleet 327 fac ac '67 CST 4x4 swb 327 factory #'s V8 stepside project '72 Cheyenne K20 50k original '72 CST Blazer K5 owned 30+yrs '73 Sierra swb 4x4 '74 Cheyenne Super swb w/16k actual '71 & 72 Cheyenne K10 4x4 swb's '70 426 HEMICUDA conv SHAKER 4 sp Dana 60 '60 Impala conv 3rd owner '72 GMC K2500 4x4 '59 Apache CST BBW fleetside swb 283 '73 ElCamino SS LS1 T56 true SS bucket tach '76 ElCamino SS 52k survivor '87 Grand National 41k True 2nd to last built in 1987. '86 K30 454 SRW fleetside CA since new '88 Trans Am GTA 39k bought new 2018 DEMON plum crazy @ 840HP! "Need for speed"