04-22-2015, 10:57 PM | #26 |
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Busy day and night, but I will try to finish up this tonight. After the bed and everything was installed, I turned to the splash apron area to see what I could do.
Pic 1 The apron on the left is a stock 54. Middle one is my modified one. The one on the right is the stock 47-53. Pic 2 The apron on top is the 54. Middle in my modified one. and the bottom one is the 47-53. I took a spare 47-53 and worked it into the size I needed. You can see in pic 1 that I'm not using the brackets to hold it to the running board. I drilled holes in the flat part of running board and flat part of apron and bolted them together.
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04-22-2015, 11:01 PM | #27 |
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Pic 1 shows my modified one installed on the truck. As you can see I made mine shorter to align with the bed and same curve as the bottom of the cab. This left the frame showing, so I made plates.
Pic 2 same shot, but with the plates I made to help cover the frame. Jim if you have any questions let me know...Jim
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04-22-2015, 11:09 PM | #28 |
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Jim, I forgot to throw in these measurements. I think the stock 54 apron is 3-3/4" to 4" high. Stock 47-53 apron is 6" high. My modified one is 5" high....Jim
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04-26-2015, 08:27 AM | #29 |
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Not only are you helping crazyjim out but me too. Would you be able to post a picture of how close the front of your running board is to the front fender? Mines about 3/4" away on the front and hits the rear fender.
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04-26-2015, 11:07 AM | #30 |
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Sid, glad I can be of help. I modified the front of my boards so no help there. I've seen pickups with as little as 1/2" up to about 1" or better. I'm showing two pics of mine, if you want more info look at my build on page 11 post #253 for how I did mine...Jim
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04-27-2015, 07:57 AM | #31 |
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Thanks Jim! Will check out your build thread.
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04-27-2015, 07:26 PM | #32 |
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Outstanding information on the bed Jim! I didn't realize there was a change on the 54. Learning so much here.
Your extended running board looks good. The second picture looks like the beading extended into to the new area? Does it? |
04-27-2015, 08:00 PM | #33 |
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Yes, the extensions where made out of metal, welded in place and finished off with filler, made it look like it came that way. Don't have a close up of it finished, will see about taking one and posting...Jim
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04-28-2015, 07:43 AM | #34 |
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Hey Jim, did you run the piece of new angle iron down the entire length of the running board?
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04-28-2015, 08:49 AM | #35 |
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Sid, yes I did...Jim
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