Bed doesn't line up with cab
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U can try . . .
I agree on lossening the 6 bed bolts and shifting the bed around to line it up with the cab. Then you need to shim it up on the side needing to be higher. Haven't seen this and I have had my bed off once for personnal work on it.
But it is new and the dealer should have their body shop "set it" for u.
But it is new and the dealer should have their body shop "set it" for u.
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Don't start loosening stuff untill you measure to see what is out of whack. I have seen cabs that had to be shimmed a tad as well. No, the trucks are not all like that. I agree that something must have gotten jarred loose. However, this is a QC issue and I would go to a different dealer, or force this one to fix it right.
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The dealer has to fix it. I knew someone that worked at a Stealership body shop, and he was always fixing stuff like that. Make them fix it. At $45000 it better be within an 1/8" out of wack (It will never be dead on perfect due to different things)
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Big Deal
Boys, if a bed out of align is all ya gotta worry about, your doin good.it also has much todo with where the truck is setting. I would say buy chevy or dodge, 3 piece frames that crack, 50,000 mi cluthes and trannys sound good, and you don't mind every **** in the cab falling off, and alluminum heads on a diesel!!!?????!!!!! got 2 strokers, a 99 and a 97. one has 193,000+ mi, and the other 145,000+ both have original trannys and the 99 6sp didn't need a clutch till 183,000 mi of towing 20,000+ lbs. the 97 has a stock auto tranny. USE IT! got an uncle that owned a frame shop. it takes 2-3 times to pull a ford frame that it does a chev or dodge. he pulled one for us, and had to wrap chains around the puller chains.
Last edited by 2 stroke man; Nov 19, 2006 at 03:08 PM.
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Thumbs up Big Deal
Boys, if a bed out of align is all ya gotta worry about, your doin good.it also has much todo with where the truck is setting. I would say buy chevy or dodge, 3 piece frames that crack, 50,000 mi cluthes and trannys sound good, and you don't mind every **** in the cab falling off, and alluminum heads on a diesel!!!?????!!!!! got 2 strokers, a 99 and a 97. one has 193,000+ mi, and the other 145,000+ both have original trannys and the 99 6sp didn't need a clutch till 183,000 mi of towing 20,000+ lbs. the 97 has a stock auto tranny. USE IT! got an uncle that owned a frame shop. it takes 2-3 times to pull a ford frame that it does a chev or dodge. he pulled one for us, and had to wrap chains around the puller chains
Boys, if a bed out of align is all ya gotta worry about, your doin good.it also has much todo with where the truck is setting. I would say buy chevy or dodge, 3 piece frames that crack, 50,000 mi cluthes and trannys sound good, and you don't mind every **** in the cab falling off, and alluminum heads on a diesel!!!?????!!!!! got 2 strokers, a 99 and a 97. one has 193,000+ mi, and the other 145,000+ both have original trannys and the 99 6sp didn't need a clutch till 183,000 mi of towing 20,000+ lbs. the 97 has a stock auto tranny. USE IT! got an uncle that owned a frame shop. it takes 2-3 times to pull a ford frame that it does a chev or dodge. he pulled one for us, and had to wrap chains around the puller chains
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