The good camera broke just before the crew showed up to hoist the new bed on. I had to use my phone's camera for the rest of the pics.

I decided that since I'm going to have to pull the bed off again at painting time, I wouldn't do the POR15 right now. I'm going to wait until after I get a new door, and I pull the dent in the cab, because I'm going to pull the bed to paint it right.

So first off, I snapped all of the new nuts onto the frame rails:


Then we set the new bed onto the frame. Then I got out the impact wrench to drive the new bolts into the nuts. I was very happy to have air tools for this job since the nuts dont have threads tapped into em. The bolts went in really rought the whole way:


Once all of the bolts were snugged up, I re-installed the fuel filler neck, which involved the 3 little sheet metal screws, and swapping over the gas cap:



Next up was plugging in the wires. OOPS! Someon chopped off the connector from the new bed! So out comes the solder iron to swap the connector off the old bed onto the new one:


Lastly, I swapped the tailgates, since the gate on the new bed was in worse shape than the old one (That's what I get for buying as cheap a bed as I can find):



Here she is in all of here mis-matched glory:


It didn't take the youngens very long to take over the old bed:



This truck was re-imported to the US from Canada, so that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the info.