Project: Bad Bagged '68.5

[mightymouse]

i just read your build , everything looks awesome in great detail . now i need to crush mine and start over. ha, cant wait to see how the bed turns out. thanks for some good reading.

[R.A.D]

anything going on?

[jlaird]

Originally Posted by R.A.D

anything going on?

Oh yea, been working on it. Just tonight I finished welding the second inner bed side.
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[R.A.D]

Originally Posted by jlaird

Oh yea, been working on it. Just tonight I finished welding the second inner bed side.
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well don't hold back

[cflvulcan]

Any new pics? If I ever have free time (what's that?), I still wana stop up again and see it.
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[krazyt]

Any up dates on this biuld

[jlaird]

Well guys, I had a very long summer house project that STOLE all my truck time, but I'm gettin back on 'er! I was out in the garage today, so ill be posting up some progress pic song enough.
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[C0UCH]

Just read this entire thread. Beautiful work! Looking forward to any and all updates.

[67c10rustbuket]

Man I thought there was an update, dang I guess I will wait.. Love this project, awesome work!

[70blackfish]

WOW....nice build...

[wild4wheels]

subscribing

[jlaird]

sorry guys, nothing new lately. Still trying to find time to work on this. Currently working on inner bed panels. I've got one welded in. Will post some pics soon.

[ksbrktracer]

You are such a tease ..........!!!!!!

[67cheby]

i just went all the way back through your build thread....love your work, lets see some progress !

[jlaird]

here's a little update while I watch cars going in single file at daytona

More work on the inner bed panel:




had to modify ends of outer bed panels



At this point, I brought the inner bed panels to a fabrication shop that had an 8 foot break to but the 90 degree flanges on the top of the inner panel.Then I spot welded them in. Also took the header panel to the shop and had them shorten it and put a flange on that also. Here are pics of the start of the bed structure. Using 1" square stock with 1/8" wall.





watchin the race:


Here is a close-up of how the body lines of the inner bed panels still match up with the modified wheel tubs.

[lolife99]

Beautiful work!

[jmedero]

Your an animal man.
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[R.A.D]

there you go. now don't stop lol

[Bennett68C10]

Awesome job how much did you have to take out of the wheel tubs

[jlaird]

Originally Posted by Bennett--G4L

Awesome job how much did you have to take out of the wheel tubs

3 inches
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[R.A.D]

sweet

[67cheby]

too COOL, glad you are back at it !

[jlaird]

Man, its been a long time since my last post. Since my last update, I've completely redid the bed frame. I had to some clearance issues, so I rebuilt it out of 1x2 steel tubing instead of the 1x1 I started with. Probably overkill, but nice peace of mind.

The whole bed is shimmed 1/8th inch, so when its time to do final alignment, I can go up or down with it.

Here is an overall shot and another of the front bed mounts. It has size mounting points. Two in front, two off the step notch, and two in the rear.




This shot shows where I tied the front bed mount into the frame with a reinforcement that ties the upper and lower rail together.

[jlaird]

Here is the mount that attaches to the step notch



And here is one of the rear attachment points. These will all be bolted to the frame after I weld threaded bungs in my pretty powder coated frame!

[jlaird]

On to the bumper install, with four custom bumper brackets of course. I made the mounting points out of plate steel connected by some DOM tubbing I had laying around.

This shot shows the outer bumper bracket and you can also see an attachment point to the bed side.



And this is one of the inner bumper brackets. Sorry for all the clamps in the way.



And the rear view. Bumper is nice and snug up to the bedsides.