Stepside bed question
 

Hello, has anyone had any luck with bed drawer type storage in a stepside bed?

I have an 04’ STX regular cab with a stepside bed. The box options are limited and I don’t think anyone makes a correctly fitting drawer like the Decked boxes.

By chance has anyone had success with modifying a Decked box to fit this type bed? What model did you use? Any opinions or info would be very much appreciated.

My thoughts were to try and find a Decked box that was just slightly too large and trim it to fit.

Thank you for any info!
David

Seams like it would be a simple project. I just use a black cargo box that's plastic, secured to tie downs at the front of my bed. My bed's floor is covered by a floor cut from a discarded drop in bed liner (over top of a Line-X spray in). A rope to the black plastic cargo box lets me stand at the tailgate and easily pull the loaded (jack, flares, blanket, 4 way wrench, etc.) cargo box back to me after I reached in from front sides and unhook the tie downs. A "Undercover" solid bed cover protects it from eyes, rain, snow. The actual black box was bought at Walmart in the camper supply section, it slides easily even loaded on the slick drop in floor, so easy that I just loosen and unhook the hooks and pull by the red tie down (only held on by the two zip ties) itself.

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This was the portion I used. My '07's bed is the 6.5 Flareside (stepside), but the drop in was from a '80s or '90s short bed Chevy styleside PU and I just cut away what I didn't want. Saved it from a burn pile. Used a sawsall with fine tooth metal blade, the used a knife to plane the edges of the plastic "hair".

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The yellow cargo net was made by hand using one cheap set of tie down "lashing" straps, some HD carpet thread, and a needle as it was snowing outside one day. It is perfect for holding groceries or other stuff back near the tail gate for easy loading / unloading. The top and lower long pieces are doubled. I used the pull type adjusters.

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Just a detail view of the hooks and adjusters.

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Just a truck picture.

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Somebody will maybe find it "interesting"? :-tap

You’ll probably have to nibble an edge or two to fit anyway.

A coworker put one in his newly acquired ‘22 SCrew and it needed to be trimmed by the inner fenders to fit. So, don’t be shocked.