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Hey diesel_brad, I need to do a bed side replacement on my '81. Any tips, tricks, or advice? It would be great if someone would do a step by step posting, seeing as all of these trucks seem to need them.
1 take the bed off
2 drill out all the spot welds
3 paint the new bed side from the back.
4 clean down to bare metal where the side will attach to the bed
5 GLUE(panel adheasive) the bed side on the top lip, front and wheel well arch.
6 weld the back by taillight
All pretty obvious welds. Back around the taillight and in rear under neith. Wheel well. Font edge of bed and along to inside rail. I would guess to be 80 or so spot welds
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