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11-18-2007, 06:38 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Marysville, CA
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wood bed replacement
Do you have to completely remove the bed from the frame to replace the wood and metal strips?
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11-18-2007, 06:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Weatherford Tx.
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Re: wood bed replacement
would make it a whole lot easier. There are only 8 bolts holding it down
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11-18-2007, 07:15 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: La pine Oregon
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Re: wood bed replacement
We did when we redid ours. It's a lot easier becasue you can out it a little higher off the ground and you don't have to work around rear ends etc.
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11-18-2007, 09:40 PM
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Location: Easley, South Carolina
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Re: wood bed replacement
It would be a lot easier to go ahead and remove the bed also because of all the carriage bolts you have to remove and replace for the strips, bedsides etc. Reaching up through the driveshaft, rear axle, trailing arms etc. would be very annoying. It's pretty well impossible to get the boards in between the cross sills and the bedsides, wheel tubs etc. without removing it.Get four budies to help take it off and set it on saw horses, you can rest it on the bottom of the front bed panel and the rear cross sill. The saw horses need to have wide boards on the top of them to keep the bed from shifting off of them. Most saw horses have a 2x4 main beam which isn't wide enough to allow much surface for supporting the bed.
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11-19-2007, 03:49 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C., Canada
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Re: wood bed replacement
A picture of your truck would be nice. What shape is your box in? Has it been repainted or does the box need body work and paint? Do any of the cross bars need to be replaced? I'm assuming the box is in some need of paint or repair if the wood bed floor is original. If you can answer yes to most of these questions I would remove the box. I prefer to install the new wood with the box back in place on the truck.
esll.  Pic's 1 through 5 .... i.) new cross bars installed 2.) Installing wood floor 3.) new cross bars painted [fabricated locally] 4.) heat shields installed 5.) finished floor installed
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