Installing Metal Strips in an AD bed which screws? - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

oossuuu754 · 05-28-2015, 02:15 PM

Anybody have any suggestions as to which screws would work best installing metal strips to a non standard barnwood bed that is on top of a 3/4 plywood. I am wanting to screw the strips in to the barnwood over the tongue and grove overlap and into the plywood. The heads of these would need to be a carriage bolt to fill the square hole on the strip but the body would need to be a wood screw? Ideas anyone?

**mr48chev** · 05-28-2015, 02:27 PM

It should all be carriage bolts if you are using stock style strips. Wood screws aren't going to hold in that wood anyhow.

You do have the crossbraces to go under the bed floor?

oossuuu754 · 05-28-2015, 02:51 PM

I am not needing the strips to hold the wood down, this just for aesthetics to give the bed a little more original look.

iowaboynca · 05-29-2015, 11:24 AM

Definitely a carriage type bolt as Mr48chevy called out. I would use a fender washer and nylon nut to hold it down if it were me.

05-28-2015, 02:15 PM	#1
oossuuu754 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Yukon, OK Posts: 395	Installing Metal Strips in an AD bed which screws? Anybody have any suggestions as to which screws would work best installing metal strips to a non standard barnwood bed that is on top of a 3/4 plywood. I am wanting to screw the strips in to the barnwood over the tongue and grove overlap and into the plywood. The heads of these would need to be a carriage bolt to fill the square hole on the strip but the body would need to be a wood screw? Ideas anyone? Attached Images __________________ ---Shawn Cecil-1953 5 window build thread Skymangs..Chris of Old Sarge customs had a shop fire and was severly injured. To help with the medical bills and expenses a fund has been set up here....http://gofundme.com/c49h5mjx8 More details are here...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=1#post7253189

05-28-2015, 02:27 PM	#2
mr48chev Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toppenish, WA Posts: 15,632	Re: Installing Metal Strips in an AD bed which screws? It should all be carriage bolts if you are using stock style strips. Wood screws aren't going to hold in that wood anyhow. You do have the crossbraces to go under the bed floor? __________________ Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club. My ongoing truck projects: 48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six. 71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant. 77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around.

05-28-2015, 02:51 PM	#3
oossuuu754 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Yukon, OK Posts: 395	Re: Installing Metal Strips in an AD bed which screws? I am not needing the strips to hold the wood down, this just for aesthetics to give the bed a little more original look. __________________ ---Shawn Cecil-1953 5 window build thread Skymangs..Chris of Old Sarge customs had a shop fire and was severly injured. To help with the medical bills and expenses a fund has been set up here....http://gofundme.com/c49h5mjx8 More details are here...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=1#post7253189

05-29-2015, 11:24 AM	#4
iowaboynca Registered User Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: West Side of the valley, CA Posts: 878	Re: Installing Metal Strips in an AD bed which screws? Definitely a carriage type bolt as Mr48chevy called out. I would use a fender washer and nylon nut to hold it down if it were me. __________________ Build: "1950" GMC -Charlotte



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