Bed Bolts
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Hardy - Doing a translation, with what little German I know, schloss would be a large house, and maybe even a manor house or castle. And a schraube is a bolt. So, it would basically be a "house bolt". Right?
Over here that is a "carriage bolt". But the dimensions of the square shank on our carriage bolts is not right for the bed bolts. As Jim said, the openings in the bed that are square are too small to take the carriage bolt. But with some work they can be used, and if stainless is used you are set for a long time.
Anyway, that is interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Over here that is a "carriage bolt". But the dimensions of the square shank on our carriage bolts is not right for the bed bolts. As Jim said, the openings in the bed that are square are too small to take the carriage bolt. But with some work they can be used, and if stainless is used you are set for a long time.
Anyway, that is interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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On Big Whitey, I noticed it has 6 bed bolts and the originals are no longer there. I will need to get under there to get into the tanks and would like to at least put SST carriage bolts instead of the grade 5 cap bolts. I'll look at the parts truck too, but that thing is rough as a cob; who knows though, it does have some gems here and there for nice parts the others don't.
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Being I want to use the style side bed floor if I can I might be able to use those bolts/screws?
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I figured keep it all in 1 place and wanted to know the size to.
Be cause my truck had no floor or cross braces I plan to see if I can use the style side parts truck bed floor.
If I can swap AC firewall, bed floor should be cake!
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On Big Whitey, I noticed it has 6 bed bolts and the originals are no longer there. I will need to get under there to get into the tanks and would like to at least put SST carriage bolts instead of the grade 5 cap bolts. I'll look at the parts truck too, but that thing is rough as a cob; who knows though, it does have some gems here and there for nice parts the others don't.
If you look at the picture of the original bolts at the beginning of this thread, you will see the head and the square shank are very large, but the hole in the frame is small. What they are doing is tightening the bolt down hard, till the square shank bottoms out on top of the frame. This keeps the thin u-channel of the bed from getting crushed. When you use regular bolts of any type with the wide beds, you have to tighten them down and use your judgment, if you tighten them too tight it will crush the bed channel.
What I use are 1/2" bolts with very large washers on top. I was using carriage bolts because of sliding loads in the bed, but regular bolts are so much easier and really don't seem to catch loads that often when sliding something in the bed.
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Guys, I've made some changes to my web site, but many more are needed in order to make the Body Mount page reasonably usable. And I'm finding this to be a very confusing/complex issue that I'd like to get sorted and documented once and for all.
So, I started a new thread where I asked for some help: https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ts-mounts.html. If you could check it out and contribute I'd really appreciate it.
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That's what are in there now, so I guess they need to stay if I don't want to spring for the OEM bolts. What do modern Ford trucks use?
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But that is a bit down the road.
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