Bed Floor Pt. 2 - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

1BadSS · 08-05-2004, 08:58 PM

Can you unbolt the metal floor in a 69 Longbed pickup? Will there be any structural instabilties with the bed sides and the bed ends only being in place? Any and all comments are welcome!

*Gee_Emm* · 08-05-2004, 10:38 PM

Yes you can unbolt it, the rest of the bed should stay fairly stable.

HOTFUN · 08-05-2004, 10:57 PM

Not sure why you are going with this unbolting the floor out. The rear cross sill under tailgate area on a metal floor box is the complete floor and has small tack welds in the rear corners to the box sides. So basically there is no taking the metal floor out and leaving the box sides in place. Once you have unbolted the floor from the sides and have the tack welds cut you simply unbolt the t he handfull of bolts to the front bed panel and you have 4 major pieces. floor with wheelhouses , left and right bedsides, and one front bed panel.
A wood floor can be disassembled leaving all 4 sides in place as the rear cross sill channel is bolted and tack welded to the sides.

Mark

08-05-2004, 08:58 PM	#1
1BadSS NOT REALLY BANNED! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Shawnee, KS Posts: 1,072	Bed Floor Pt. 2 Can you unbolt the metal floor in a 69 Longbed pickup? Will there be any structural instabilties with the bed sides and the bed ends only being in place? Any and all comments are welcome! __________________ 1987 Mustang Coupe - 2.7 Stroker, 78mm turbo, Stainless header, 3" Exh, FMIC, 160lb/hr Injectors, MS3, twin walbro 255's, 34psi. Eating V8's daily. 04 Pontiac GTO 04 Ford Mustang GT 68 C20 LWB stripper truck 73 K5 Cheyenne 76 C20 Sierra Crew SRW 88 K20 Suburban I'm not hammering on metal just to hammer, i'm creating a piece of art.

08-05-2004, 10:57 PM	#3
HOTFUN Registered User Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Posts: 2,145	Not sure why you are going with this unbolting the floor out. The rear cross sill under tailgate area on a metal floor box is the complete floor and has small tack welds in the rear corners to the box sides. So basically there is no taking the metal floor out and leaving the box sides in place. Once you have unbolted the floor from the sides and have the tack welds cut you simply unbolt the t he handfull of bolts to the front bed panel and you have 4 major pieces. floor with wheelhouses , left and right bedsides, and one front bed panel. A wood floor can be disassembled leaving all 4 sides in place as the rear cross sill channel is bolted and tack welded to the sides. Mark __________________ '66 CST BBW swb fleet 327 fac ac '67 CST 4x4 swb 327 stepside project '72 Cheyenne K20 50k original '72 Cheyenne Super K20 project '73 Sierra swb 4x4 frame off in paint stage '74 Cheyenne Super swb w/16k actual '71 & 72 Cheyenne K10 4x4 swb's '70 426 HEMICUDA conv SHAKER 4 sp Dana 60 '60 Impala conv 327 PG fac ac loaded 3rd owner '72 GMC K2500 4x4 '59 Apache CST BBW fleetside swb 283 '73 ElCamino SS LS1 T56 true SS bucket tach '76 ElCamino SS 52k survivor '87 Grand National 41k True 2nd to last built in 1987. '86 K30 454 SRW fleetside CA since new '88 Trans Am GTA 39k bought new 2018 DEMON plum crazy @ 840HP! "Need for speed"

08-05-2004, 10:38 PM	#2
Gee_Emm Account Suspended Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,002	Yes you can unbolt it, the rest of the bed should stay fairly stable.



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