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cuting the bed on a lwb to make it a swb
hi all, i know the frame on a swb is 20 inches shorter than a lwb, but i don't know about the bed length, but if i was to find out if it was 20 inches, could i just basically cut 20 inches off the front of the bed maybe 4 inches in so that the "front gate" is still on the front, then remove the middle piece i cut and weld the front of the bed to the back part removing 20 inches in the middle. I figure to cut it as close to the front as possible so that the body lines will match back up. Has anyone tried this, thought about this, or done this? It's just an idea right now, but i don't see why i couldn't do it, but that's why i'm asking, there is probally something i'm overlooking. any help or advice would be excellent. thanks everyone.
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pic
here's a pic to kinda show you guys what i mean, ofcourse this is a short bed, but i didn't have any pics of a long bed in a straight side view shot. but if you disregard that, those red lines are the spot where i'm talking about taking the middle piece out and then welding the bed back togather.
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Actually the rear is cut off too I believe it is 12 in front 8 in back. I have seen and heard of cutting the bed and yes it is usually just in front of the tires cause the back would be a B**h. I dont think you should cut all 20 inches to make the overall length correct it wouldnt look right. I think ebfabman did this but not sure.
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well i know when you do the frame cut, it's 8 at the very end of the frame and then 12 from under the cab, but the bed i think the whole 20 is in front of the cab, i'd have to take measurements off a short bed to make sure the fenderwells line up in the right spot as a stock short bed.
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Both ends of a lwb bed need to be cut.
Here is a picture to show the difference.
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that seems like way to much work for me, my other idea was to just buy the swb bedsides and cut the lwb floor to match.
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Nate003, get the bed sides, then cut your floor. Piece of cake
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Cut 12" off the front of the floor & 8" off the back of the floor. Sell your long fleet bedsides & buy some factory or repop shorty bedsides.
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Wouldn't you lose the rear most cross member under the bed this way? I am not sure how this would work properly?
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i brought my fleet sides to a local guy to do, at first he said about 900 bucks to do both, at the time we were happy with that because these sides were mint, about a week later when he began do get into it he said hell no, with the body lines how they are he said its a ton of screwing around and is not worth it one bit...and he is a real talented guy
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Is it really that hard to find a short bed? I know it took me a while but I was able to find one local. Seems it would just be much cheaper that way.
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Why dont ya think about new bedsides, some cross rails and a wood floor?
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I agree with Mudder67
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