Raising Bed Floor, HELP!!!!!

[altitudeadjustments]

I have a bagged 1978 C-10 and I want to raise the floor of the bed to cover the notch. I am not for sure on how to handle everything. How do I handle the bed and the floor to raise it. Please help me!!!!!!

[Captkaos]

This might be better answered in the Paint/Body section, if so, someone will move it...
BUT if you want to move the COMPLETE bed floor you are looking at some work. In a nutshell you need to remove the bed floor from the bedsides, set the bed on the frame, set the bed floor back in, find a way to structurely support it and be level and reconnect it somehow to the bed in the new location.

[N2TRUX]

Maybe 7T7 will see this. If not you might PM him. He is raising his entire bed floor. It says it ain't no picnic....

Look here

[magnethead]

a third option is raise the entire bed off the frame, like a body lift, then put in filler panels. Heard it's a ton easier to clean grunge off the frame too.

[PHOENIX]

If you raise the entire bed then the body lines will not line up.

[Captkaos]

Originally Posted by magnethead

a third option is raise the entire bed off the frame, like a body lift, then put in filler panels. Heard it's a ton easier to clean grunge off the frame too.

Ditto on what PHOENIX said.

[Izzy]

To do that with the body lift mounts you still have to do what Captkaos said.

[altitudeadjustments]

I just want to raise the floor to cover up suspension, air tank, and fuel cell. I plan on building mounts to make the body lines line up. I just need to know how to handle the bed and floor. I want to raise it about 6 in. Do I put jack stands under the bedsides and use jacks to raise the floor?

[76bonanza]

Can you mount a new bed floor over the old one at the higher location and support it some how? Just a thought

[CT-Truckster]

I'm thinking the same thing as 76bonanza, just leave the old floor in and put a new floor in higher up. just mount some angle or somtheing six inches high around the inside of the bed and put in some good crossbracing and put a new floor on it. you could always take the bed off and cut the old floor out from underneath after you put the new floor in and fab up some mounts . Fitting a new floor to the bed sounds a whole lot easier than fiting the bed to a new floor, if you know what i mean.

[7T7]

Sorry I haven't been checking in here as often as I'd like and totally missed this post.
Been helping a friend open his new hot rod shop......but that's another story.

I'm probably not the best person to ask about this subject. I know there are many ways to go about doing this, I decided to do it the hard way.
My bed floor is sitting up 7.25" from its stock location. The floor is now bolted from the bottom similar to a late model bed. The bed floor holes will be filled and the floor contour lines will be added. That's the easy part! The inside panels were removed as well as the front bed panel and 7" was then cut from all three panels.
The sides were sectioned so that the inner wheel tubs wouldn't be all the way to the top of the bed rails and the accent lines match up. Now it's time to cut the floor and add floor pieces to the area around the wheel tubs.
I'm sure there are easier ways of doing a raised bed floor but this is the route I'm taking.
I keep telling myself that a hole in the floor sure would have been easier.

[N2TRUX]

Originally Posted by 7T7

..... I keep telling myself that a hole in the floor sure would have been easier.

Yes it would be easier. It would still look like a cut up bed floor though. That is going to look awesome when you get it finished. Hang in there and you will appreciate all the hard work when it done and everyone looks at it like ....

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by N2TRUX

Yes it would be easier. It would still look like a cut up bed floor though. That is going to look awesome when you get it finished. Hang in there and you will appreciate all the hard work when it done and everyone looks at it like ....

And . . ..... if you don't appreciate it, we sure the he77 will!

Frank, I have that cut measured out on the inner bedsides of my 67 project. I temporarily raised the floor w/spacers to get a feel for how much I wanted to raise everything. I decided to keep the tops of the fenderwells (tubs) even w/the bodyline of the inside bed wall or about 3" (+/-).