Replacing Rails under bed
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Replacing Rails under bed
Hello all,
I have a 2000 F250 SD, the rails that are spot welded to the underside of the bed have deteriated beyond saving. I have had no luck in finding replacements and was wondering if anyone out there has. I presently have the bed off the truck and am going to scale the rust off the frame and Por-15 it while its open also. Thinking of replacing the tank with with a Titan to double the capacity, any good or bad thoughts on this?
Thank you all for you input in advance.
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I have a 2000 F250 SD, the rails that are spot welded to the underside of the bed have deteriated beyond saving. I have had no luck in finding replacements and was wondering if anyone out there has. I presently have the bed off the truck and am going to scale the rust off the frame and Por-15 it while its open also. Thinking of replacing the tank with with a Titan to double the capacity, any good or bad thoughts on this?
Thank you all for you input in advance.
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I am not replacing the entire bed because my has the liner sprayed in the bed and about 18" around the lower outside. It would cost about $1500 to replace that. I am figuring that fixing the rails will be the less costly alternative. I like your idea about using square tubing, my only concern is that the original rails are not the same height all the way across. They "conture" , but not even sure if this is needed. I will look more into that.
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Tubing of the correct height dimension for each location is the solution.
Years ago I retrofit a new take off superduty bed on a much older truck. By dropping the bed on the frame rails , I used different sizes of square tubing to adapt the two. I even welded nuts into the square tubing to use the factory bed bolts to hold the tubing in place, and then tac welded the tubing to the frame. Then I removed the bed and did additional welding between the tubing and frame. There were no modifications done to the bed and everything was bolt on using the adapters I made. Ended up using the truck for several years as the shop beater until I needed the bed for a cheap sd I bought , so I then swapped beds and put the beater bed on the old truck and sold it. It ended up as a truck cruising around picking up scrap metal.
Years ago I retrofit a new take off superduty bed on a much older truck. By dropping the bed on the frame rails , I used different sizes of square tubing to adapt the two. I even welded nuts into the square tubing to use the factory bed bolts to hold the tubing in place, and then tac welded the tubing to the frame. Then I removed the bed and did additional welding between the tubing and frame. There were no modifications done to the bed and everything was bolt on using the adapters I made. Ended up using the truck for several years as the shop beater until I needed the bed for a cheap sd I bought , so I then swapped beds and put the beater bed on the old truck and sold it. It ended up as a truck cruising around picking up scrap metal.
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I find that 90% of the beds that I see in junk yards are USELESS. It shouldnt be too hard to find some used rails that way.... Too bad you didnt post this a few months ago, I scrapped a bed a while back.
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Yeah, I wish I found it earlier myself Sweets, found it by accident while under there checking the brakes. On further research, I am going to replace the brake lines because they look like they are going to turn to dust from the rust, better now then when I need them.
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