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This Saturday I went to my buddy's house to start working on swapping the bed with my rust free one. Here's the before pics I took (to compare to the new paint job)
This isn't my first rodeo swapping body parts - last year my buddy and I did an entire body swap on an old Ford and have bed pulling down to a science. In an hour, the bed was off the frame and ready for liftoff.
Kinda diggin' that @Manhattan look!
I know that the old bed did look pretty nice, but there was a ton of rust hiding under that shiny paint - more so than I even thought. Here's a few of the problem areas.
Now it's time to throw on my dirty rust free bed! Got it off of the trailer and into the air:
And then onto the truck! Here it is all done at my garage:
You wouldn't believe it either - once I got the new bed on I SWEAR the truck is so much faster...and they say decals don't add any HP!
Anyways - that's it for now. I've tracked down a new hood, cowl & fender for the truck too - so I'm getting somewhere on this thing! I hope to have it to the body shop in the next couple days.
This isn't my first rodeo swapping body parts - last year my buddy and I did an entire body swap on an old Ford and have bed pulling down to a science. In an hour, the bed was off the frame and ready for liftoff.
Kinda diggin' that @Manhattan look!
I know that the old bed did look pretty nice, but there was a ton of rust hiding under that shiny paint - more so than I even thought. Here's a few of the problem areas.
Now it's time to throw on my dirty rust free bed! Got it off of the trailer and into the air:
And then onto the truck! Here it is all done at my garage:
You wouldn't believe it either - once I got the new bed on I SWEAR the truck is so much faster...and they say decals don't add any HP!
Anyways - that's it for now. I've tracked down a new hood, cowl & fender for the truck too - so I'm getting somewhere on this thing! I hope to have it to the body shop in the next couple days.
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