What truck box sides work for 72 blazer?

[Luba]

Do 67-72 chevy truck 8 foot box sides work well for a 72 blazer (for patch panels)? I can get a good clean set cheap like $300 for a pair of take-offs. Is that a good deal and will they work?

[jamie72]

thats a good deal on the take off bedsides, but i think guys are using short bedsides on the blazers, only need to cut on the front,with a lwb side you would have to cut front and back i believe.
maybe buy the lwb and sell them to a needing person and use the $$ to buy a set of swb sides?

[Thealien]

Short bed sides work the best and you still have to trim some of the front to fit.

[Luba]

OK thanks

[vtblazer]

Just did that on my K5, have a thread over on CK5 about it.

I used the skin off a swb bedside and re-used the inners of the blazer.

Couple pics for ya:

Started here:


Cut off the outer skin:


Bedside I used:


Amount that needs to be cut off:


Fit up:


Welded:


Primed:

[Luba]

So buying 2 good 8 ft boxside for around $300 are not going to work for me?

[Thealien]

The 6 foot bedsides are correct from the tailights to the wheel opening, they are just too long at the front. The wheel opening on an 8 foot bed is shaped the same as the 6 foot and the blazer. You would have to trim the front and rear of the 8 foot bedsides to make them work. A lot more work and welding IMHO but you "could" make it work.