I'm guessing my rear sway bar and drivers side end link aren't supposed to look like this:



Wondering if this explains why my bed is cockeyed all the time (higher drivers side at the front).

 

No, that link is supposed to be straight.... wonder wtf happened to do that? Is the box still bad, I wonder if the truck was in an accident, and they covered it up. You may have a bent frame.

 

That is definitely not supposed to be like that.

 

The threaded end of that link was bent over and snapped when I tried to undo the nut. Kind of looks to me like the truck maybe high centered on the link, bending the link and twisting one end of the sway bar arm up.

And yes, the bed is still twisted. I find that my neither of my canopies fit square, and its higher on the drivers side at the front and I think lower at the back on the pass side. So I still haven't solved it.

 

Todd, measure the distance from the pavement to the frame rail above the axle on both sides of the truck, if there is a difference of more than 1/2" start looking real close at your springs, and I mean pull the wheels off the axle and then look at every single leaf of the packs from both the outboard and the inboard side. Case in point - when I got my truck it was listing over an inch to the passenger side, turned out I had two leafs broken right across the locating pin, also I had one leaf like that on the driver side. You couldn't even see the cracks from all the rust in that area tho, I eventually noticed one on the passenger side but the other leaf on the same side and the one on the driver side I only found when I dropped my axle to install more leafs in the packs. My rear swaybar is straight tho, so I don't think broken leafs alone can mangle it up like that - I'm thinking your truck may have, as already suggested, indeed been in an accident of some sort that bent your swaybar and also cracked a few leafs, what kind of accident causes that tho I have no clue...