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On my 81 F100 I built as a driver, cab off frame rebuild, I did 2 coats of roll on bed liner top & bottom of the floor before putting cab back on frame.
I used the truck for a bit just that way and can tell you it did nothing for noise. little rocks hitting the floor bottom sounded like gun shots!
I think it has stood up pretty good so far. I left it black as that was what the rubber floor mat was.
A few month back when I installed the over drive unit I installed a used carpet someone gave me and that made it real quite.
The floor is shinny because it is still wet, it got a little less when dry.
The custom metal ribbed floor I made to replace the wood floor, flare side, had lineX on it from the parts truck I just did 1 roll on coat to make it look good again.
Because I use the truck, not heavily yet, I don't worry about hurting the floor.
Floor marked with white paint when building it
Dave ----
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Don't get me wrong I love the look of wood beds but for the cross members and F&R sills was $1000.
Then add the wood, metal strips and the hardware it was just not in the bank to do.
Heck the truck was $800 to take the trash to the dump weekly. I needed to do a few things to make it safe and it got vary out of hand LOL
Cab off frame rebuild, floors, rockers, cab corners, rear door posts, lower inner & outer left door.
The bed floor came from a $400 parts truck that rolled, so the sides were trashed but the floor was good.
What is nice with the ribbed floor is the water & dirt drain out the front and not sit in the bed to rust it or rot wood.
I took the parts truck AC firewall and grafted it on my truck so I have factory AC.
Also took the factory dual tank setup and added it to my flare side to look factory, it was never an option for a flare side.
I even customized the bumpers, no bolts, and added driving / fog lights to the front bumper.
Only took me 4 years almost to the day and I did all the work myself.
Dave ----
Wood bed kits are way too expensive so we cut pine plywood into strips, stained and varnished it. Not sure how it will stand up but mine isn`t a work truck so hopefully I get more than a few yrs out of the bed.
What is nice of this site is you get to see what others have done or doing to their projects and pick what you think would work best for your project.
I don't only check out my 80 - 86 truck area but all of them and why I am here.
Dave ----
