He mentioned earlier it wouldn't be worth it unless the bed was free. $200 is hard to pass up with the price of raw sheet metal these days. Perhaps he hasn't been to a salvage yard lately and priced out a complete bed. Obviously he knows what he's doing.... I was merely pointing out a...
I snagged a Nissan hardbody truck bed at a scrap yard for $200. I used only the interior sheeting. It was too easy and cheap not to.... it would have been almost $100 in raw sheet metal to do the same thing. I hate to see you go to all that work and have a flat floor on the bed. Every little...
Cool build!
If you haven't, you can see the build thread linked in my sig that I converted a 40 into a 45 with a 16" stretch.
I ended up using lower rear corners from Real Steel, and I basically made my own rear corners above that. Overall, a pretty straight forward process.
Good luck...