bed mount question - bent frame from towing?

[Chuck78]

Originally Posted by padresag

it sits right at the back of the high flat section just before it drops. the 3rd picture of protrash shows it in it's proper place just above the panhard bar
it is located 32 3/4" behind the frt cross sill and 24' in frt of the rear cross sill and that is centre to centre on the bolt holes
ron

My apoligies Ron, I must have read this at 2AM, as I missed it. From description that went something like, "the reinforcement strip in question sits at the very rear portion of the highest point of the frame, right before it drops downward to the rear," I got quite confused. I measured mine, and sure enough, it is in the wrong location one set of wear strip bolts to the front (about a foot) at the highest point of the rear frame over the axle (just in front of the axle). From your measurements, the next set of wear strip bolts in the bed are in fact exactly as you said, 24" in front of the rear cross sill, and 32-3/4" to the rear of the forward cross sill. This is directly over the panhard bar mount, and to my confusion, directly over the part of the frame that is dropping downward to the rear (i.e. NOT above the highest part of the frame). By the description " at the rear of the highest part of the frame" I was still scratching my head. By the measurements, it makes perfect sense, and now I have another reason that I need to jack up the whole body and pull out the bed wood!

I sure as heck wish the previous owner(s) would have done this right, and also replaced the body mounts when they had it apart! They left the body mounts there, but left the bolts completely out of the two sets of rubber mounts on the cross sills, and put the bed wood back on! Some people!!! Why!>??!?!?! So I am missing all the lower rubber mounts under the cross sills, and 3 of the uppers managed to stay with the truck, but one took a hike down the road somewhere. Add that to the list of 200+ other stupid things I have had to fix due to the previous owner's "runs good, partially restored" description! meant "barely runs, help bail us out of this mess!"