Bed bolts
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Bed bolts
We took my friends bed off to get to the welded on gooseneck hitch on his 03 CCSB F250. Ended up cutting the 3 forward bed bolts off w the torch. Any idea where to get them, other than ford? need the 3 bolts and clips
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Those are probably high grade steel don't use regular bolts on there they may not be strong enough. Home depot does carry some high grade bolts but I don't know if they have a high enough rating, try asking the ford dealer.
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Of course ford sells all that stuff. I bought new clips and use regular grade 5 bolts metric I think they were 14 mm maybe 12 mm. Then I tapped the plates as the plates have no threads in them...No way am I gonna deal with those torx crap again and now they come out easy because I threaded the plates. They don't bother me that they stick up as I have a rubber matt under my bed liner.
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I agree, that's why its puzzling to me that the bolts might be TTY. They're not like head bolts where the tension is vertical, but I would think any force on bedbolts would be at ninety degrees to the longitudinal - i.e., a sheering force.
Unless you want to lift the truck by the bed, I have a hard time believing the bedbolts are TTY!
Plus, I'm with 99350sd. I might eventually replace them all with heads.
Unless you want to lift the truck by the bed, I have a hard time believing the bedbolts are TTY!
Plus, I'm with 99350sd. I might eventually replace them all with heads.
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My truck has them replaced with hex heads (by former owner). Getting a load of gravel out of the bed is a bear because the shovel runs into the damned things. Aren't the hex heads rounded to avoid that? I don't remember the problem in my old f150.
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Yes. Torx headed bolts are rounded to avoid things catching them
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I agree, that's why its puzzling to me that the bolts might be TTY. They're not like head bolts where the tension is vertical, but I would think any force on bedbolts would be at ninety degrees to the longitudinal - i.e., a sheering force.
Unless you want to lift the truck by the bed, I have a hard time believing the bedbolts are TTY!
Plus, I'm with 99350sd. I might eventually replace them all with heads.
Unless you want to lift the truck by the bed, I have a hard time believing the bedbolts are TTY!
Plus, I'm with 99350sd. I might eventually replace them all with heads.
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