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The particular truck in question sports a wooden flatbed of simple construction. I am 250 miles away from it and do not yet own it but I'm working on that. Based on what I've read so far most home brew flatbeds use a homemade mounting system. Typically is this done without maiming the truck? (hopefully)
Also, does this wooden bed weigh more or less than the original in your opinion? The racer in me says to take every other board out to make the truck lighter, but I know that eventually this imbalance becomes unhealthy. Any thoughts on that. I don't really wanna remove the bed all together because the bare frame look is not for me. I guess I'm just trying to occupy myself until the truck is in my possession. Any general info on flatbeds is appreciated.
Hi mate, best way to find out is to crawl underneath and have a look. It should be pretty obvious what is holding the bed on, it may just be some heavy gauge U-bolts holding it to the main chassis rails - this is common, cheap, quick and safe.
Basic flatbeds won't weigh all that much, especially if they aren't hardwood or heavy gauge steel.
As for performance, I would leave worrying about that until you get the rest of the truck running and working reliably. Besides, you need traction at the rear to accelerate and you can only have so much traction with a lightweight bed over the wheels.
My flatbed is bolted to the frame using stocking bolt holes. It is a heavy bed, but still not enough weight to keep it from spinning tires on wet grass, let alone snow/ice.
That looks like its going to be a really light deck and even that 300 6 is going to have no problems spinning the wheels. I've got a 9' all steel deck on my 75 F250, the 390 in it really lights up the rear end real good and its light in the snow and rain. I try to keep 500 lbs of weight in it to make it more driveable.
Any general info on flatbeds is appreciated.
