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Old Aug 4, 2011 | 06:29 PM
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Does anyone know where to buy a complete bed or someone that can put one together in or near central Kansas? My bed is completly junk.
 
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Old Aug 4, 2011 | 08:32 PM
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Join the club! J/k sort of.... I've been trying to find a bed thats in better shape than mine for 4 months with no luck. I'm in southeast kansas by the way.
 
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One neat way I've heard of is to get a late 80s/90s bed and swap the 73-79 bed skins on. The inside, floor, and everything is the same, but most are galvanized and in pristine condition. You can grab one of these with rusted out quarter panels for cheap, then do the swap. This is the route I plan on going.
 
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Old Aug 4, 2011 | 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by fordguy76
One neat way I've heard of is to get a late 80s/90s bed and swap the 73-79 bed skins on. The inside, floor, and everything is the same, but most are galvanized and in pristine condition. You can grab one of these with rusted out quarter panels for cheap, then do the swap. This is the route I plan on going.

That is very interesting.. Definatly post detailed pictures when you do that please..
 
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Originally Posted by fordguy76
One neat way I've heard of is to get a late 80s/90s bed and swap the 73-79 bed skins on. The inside, floor, and everything is the same, but most are galvanized and in pristine condition. You can grab one of these with rusted out quarter panels for cheap, then do the swap. This is the route I plan on going.
That's exactly what I did. I took a battery operated Sawzall and cut the 95 bed's crushed outer sides off and left them at the JY. Even if you buy the replacement metal pieces for your 73-79 sides, it's cheaper than a pristine original bed. Most truck bed's up to 95 in the JY are damaged on the outside, but the inside parts, including the bed that we need are in GREAT shape. My bed at "You Pull\wrench It" was $95.00 I believe. I even installed the 90's type tail gate latches. MUCH better than the 73-79 type. You can open the gate with a pinky finger. Cut every thing you need out with a sawzall at the JY. It's fast. I cut my latches out of a mangled 94 tailgate in less than a minute. I cut the sides off in less than 15 minutes. Now, drilling out the hammer weld's that secure the bed side's to the bed in both the old and replacement bed's took a few hours. Buy the proper bit\tool to drill these out. I did not and went through several 1/2" drill bit's.GRR!
 
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Join the club! J/k sort of.... I've been trying to find a bed thats in better shape than mine for 4 months with no luck. I'm in southeast kansas by the way.
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