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Old Sep 17, 2025 | 06:09 AM
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52 F1 Need Help Again

Hard to believe it been 7 years of on and off since I started my rebuild. Since hunting season went out last year, I have been working on it almost every day thru the summer and not stopping until I finish. All's I like is assembling the bed, paint rear fenders and mount hood and it will be about done.
This Forum hasn't let me down yet, I don't post a lot, but I read a lot of threads.
Question 1, I have attached pictures of the bed end cap, which covers the ends of the boards at tailgate end. The old one has a channel; the only replacement I have found is just an angle.
Has anyone found one like the original?

Question 2. I have attached pictures of the original bed to frame bolts and washer. I have not found bed bolts with the recessed square head like the original, I have seen them with a Phillips head. The washers I saw don't look like the original.

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LMC and DC End Cap
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Bed Bolt
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Bed Bolt Washer
 
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Old Sep 17, 2025 | 06:48 AM
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My end cap is like the newer one that you show. It came with the bed kit that I purchased for my 49.
 
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The bed bolt is Ford Fasteners 350628-S7 and is 7/16-20x4 square socket head machine screw.

The countersunk washer is 351460-S8.

Unfortunately, those part are obsolete and discontinued.

It seems most vendors offer the later style 350623-S7 which is 3 3/4" long instead of 4" and a 7C-8144440 washer

https://www.dennis-carpenter.com/tru...lt--washer-kit

https://cgfordparts.com/stepside-bed...-350623-s.html

https://cgfordparts.com/stepside-bed...c-8144440.html
 
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