When you can't explain what it is or why it is there, It's a "design feature".
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Cracks me up, four structural cross members that attach to the frame, and all four are of a different design.
Yes, the best you can find on the market....Does it have welding goggles?
There wasn’t a lot left of this part of the bed for me to replicate in its rebuild. They are a bit different than 40’s too so my ‘65 40 as a template was limited. When the floor panel gets flat at the gate (there isn’t a sill cover piece like on the 40’s, the bed floor itself is the sill cover) it wraps around the c-channel for additional structural integrity so I’d need to make at least one 90-deg bend in whatever was there in my rebuild. Impossible for me to do that with the beads, and I thought about doing a cut and taper (and weld) thing back there but decided to just extend the beads all the way and weld a piece at 90-deg to it that then becomes the c-channel sill “wrap.” It will have to be cut to match the cross section profile of the beaded floor, but no biggie after it’s marked. I’ll weld it on both sides so I can grind the outside top and it will look almost like a bend . Of course, in this case the tailgate will be slightly different to make it fit but would still work on other FST applications if someone parted this thing out in the next century. This is an early ‘63 fixed top SWB bed, they are somewhat different than the 1/2 generation later fixed top beds, for instance it has a front c-channel sill while later ones don’t.Paul you could pie slice the side walls and make a taper that way.
Let me know what flight it‘s coming in on and I’ll pick it up at the airport. Bus service is limited out here in the boonies. Does it ride horses?Yes, the best you can find on the market....
Let me know what flight it‘s coming in on and I’ll pick it up at the airport. Bus service is limited out here in the boonies. Does it ride horses?
(note my politically correct non-use of gender specific pronouns, as I can’t really tell what it is anyhow. We have multiple bathrooms at our facility so no problem there)