I am in the process of taking the bed off of my 1992 Ford F-150 Flareside. I went to take the bolts out today and most of them just spin and spin and wont loosen. I finally got one out and noticed that the bolts were quite odd, they are like carriage bolts with a big oblong bushing on the top part of the bolt. To get to my question, do all ford's (like 1992-1996) styleside or flareside use the same style bolt? My bed has six bolts and I would like to just replace them all. If someone knows where I could get them from (besides Ford because I'm not paying Ford prices) or if you figured out something else besides using the factory style bolts, give me any advice you have. Help is much needed and appreciated. Thanks.

 

if you can get one out that stays solid you can take it to your local tractor supply store and get a matching one.

 

FORD is the only place to get the "correct" OE bed bolt. I would just get hexed headed bolts of the same length and be done with it

 

What about the big bushing though? What does it do and does it matter if it has it or not? And where would I get those from and how much do you think they cost?

 

Weld a nut to the top of the ones that spin so you can hold em to get the nut off the bottom.

Myself I just used use grade 8 bolts to replace them. Once the bolts where all good and tight took a angle grinder and rounded off the heads some to resemble the originals in fit with the floor. So stuff in the box wouldn't hang up, get gouged up by them so easy.

 

What bushing?

 

On my Flareside the bed bolts have a big steel bushing built right into the bolt

 

in the morning im gonna go outside and look at my bed to see if i can understand what your talking bout.