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wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
hey guys , i have an 8ft bed with a steel floor and finding a wood bed floor around here is as rare as hens teeth! anyone know how to convert the steel to wood ? i dont want to just lay wood over the steel either , i want the real deal , anyone have any idea ?
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
Are you talking fleetside?
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
Yes sir, sorry i didnt mention that
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
I personally have only seen one. It was a 8' dually wood bed floor!
I would assume that you would need 8' stepside bed strips, probably more then a stepside, for the middle. Stepside cross sills. both heights and will need to be make longer? You will need angle brackets for the bedsides. I think I remember some sort of funky "flange" around the wheel wells that sits on top of the wood. Searching for pics would probably answer that. Hope this helps. Super cool project
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
Your going to have to be a savvy fabricator. I'm pretty sure there are MAJOR differences between wood and steel floor boxes, more so than peeling a skin and adding a couple brackets
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
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Here's an old post of mine with some pics of the fleetside wood floor I restored in Dad's 77: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=376467 |
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
Thanka for all your help guys ! Kinds sounds like there is nothing in the aftermarket thus far though sadly ? Hopefull someone will come out with a kit soon
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
They sell kits that go over your steel floor you have now,The other way is find a bed that had it and swap beds.
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
Modify the 67-72 fleetside flanges etc??
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
Even if i could just find an original 8ft flt side wood bed floor to get measurements from i might be able to do it , just wish LMC had a kit , must have been a rare option??
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
LMC Truck have the brackets etc for wood floor on the step side. Looking at the catalog I think you may be able to adapt many parts to do a fleetside, or even manufacture parts using one cross sill wood bed part from the stepside and extending it to span a fleet side.
The next couple of pages in the catalog show the other parts available. I would mill or have milled your own choice of wood rather than buy a wood kit. http://www.lmctruck.com/icatalog/cc/full.aspx?Page=41 Also on eBAY I have seen the bed strips polished, chromed or whatever you desire. Hope this helps |
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Re: wooden bed floor conversion , how to ?
Buy the correct flanges from LMC, or cannibalize a 67-72 bed. The over the floor kits are silly.
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