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Old 04-06-2013, 08:30 PM   #85
ATVYP
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Re: Uncle Howard's 1946 Chevy Truck

The latch assemblies also turned out well for securing the tilt bed. I took 2 of the bear claw latches, but they where too wide, so I cut them apart and modified them as the pictures show to make them narrow enough to fit between the frame rails, and then used the power door lock motor to actuate the latch. A piece of thin wall square tubing cut in half made a perfect bracket to install the mechanism together, then welded 2 5/16 weld nuts to secure the assembly to the frame.
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