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08-03-2004, 12:36 AM
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Location: Bonney Lake, WA
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Long step side box
hi i own a n 85 silverado 4x4 and i am hoping to be repainting in the next year or so... and i am thinking of a long step box would look cool on it. anyone have any pics of a long step box on our gen of pickups? also - what years of this box will fit on our frames? thanks -
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08-03-2004, 12:58 AM
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Most any 8 ft stepside will fit from like 55 - 87, with some minor modification, but the 8 ft stepside that will bolt up to your truck for sure with no modification would be from 81-87, though I am nearly 100% sure that the bolt pattern would be the same from 73-87, and possibly even earlier...
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08-03-2004, 02:18 AM
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It would certainly be different. I have only seen 3 or 4 of them, ever, so you might be hard pressed to find one. Slonaker |
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08-03-2004, 02:21 AM
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I've seen a couple, and a guy near my school owns one, looks odd from the side, but from the rear or the front, it looks great, just like a short stepper, only longer, lol!
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08-03-2004, 06:00 AM
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Any bed from 73-87 should fit, I have an 84 model stepside bed on my 78. You will have to move the gas tank for a 73-80 model bed as they are on the pass. side and 81-87 are driverside. You could look for a dual tank bed, but I think that was more of a shortbed thing. I had to move my tank to the dr. side. I had the option of getting a 74 bed, but it didnt have a gas tank door, so I went with the 84. Thats really the only difference.
You could always do like I did and cut a perfectly good truck in half! 
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08-03-2004, 11:51 AM
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Stepsides RULE
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pineville, LA
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grrr stupid GM and wrong sided gas tank on my 80! i hate trying to pull up to the gas pump with gas door on passenger side, and when the pumps have people at them it compounds the problem!!! lol
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08-03-2004, 11:53 PM
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thanks for the help guys. i have dual tanks =)
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