bed mount help
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bed mount help
alright guys, I got the bed set onto the frame tonight. Problem is that it's sitting on the front edge sheet metal and not on the crossmembers.
I didn't do a very good job documenting pulling the bed apart originally. I have three of the original crossmembers and all are 2 1/2" tall. The only metal piece going across was the rear crossmember. Is there a piece on the front edge I'm missing? Maybe I have the angle iron brackets on the bedsides upside down?
My service manual is no good for this and my pictures from the teardown didn't capture how the bed mounted very well.
Ideas?
Mike
I didn't do a very good job documenting pulling the bed apart originally. I have three of the original crossmembers and all are 2 1/2" tall. The only metal piece going across was the rear crossmember. Is there a piece on the front edge I'm missing? Maybe I have the angle iron brackets on the bedsides upside down?
My service manual is no good for this and my pictures from the teardown didn't capture how the bed mounted very well.
Ideas?
Mike
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It's a 52 express bed. I figured out part of the problem. When I rebuilt the rear crossmember I didn't account for the flat bottom of the original. Probably because there wasn't much left of it. The 1/2T replacement I spliced into it ended up being almost an inch and half deeper. That rested on the framerails and made the back of the bed sit up too high. I had to make some cuts in the bottom and used a very manly c-clamp to make the bottom flat again. Would've been easier to cut out and reweld when I made it if I had paid more attention to it.
On the front, I ended up using some 1X flat oak spacers (about 3/4" tall) to raise it up to where the running board holes lined up. It's going to work out, I just don't remember there being anything under the wooden crossbmembers to raise them up and can't figure out why the bed would sit on the frame now.
As it sits I have the drivers side running board and rear fender mounted. My wife even said it looks like a truck now! Well, from that side anyway.
Mike
On the front, I ended up using some 1X flat oak spacers (about 3/4" tall) to raise it up to where the running board holes lined up. It's going to work out, I just don't remember there being anything under the wooden crossbmembers to raise them up and can't figure out why the bed would sit on the frame now.
As it sits I have the drivers side running board and rear fender mounted. My wife even said it looks like a truck now! Well, from that side anyway.
Mike
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