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Old 09-10-2021, 07:01 PM   #16
Keith Seymore
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Re: Question about wood bed stain and sealer for my 1987

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Originally Posted by kipps View Post
What about the wood floor fleetsides? Were those denoted any differently? The one I saw in a salvage yard was a fleetside with a wood floor.
Yes - since the fleetside could come with either a steel floor or a wood floor the wood had it's own RPO: E81.

We haven't talked much about how the RPOs work, but they stack to create shorthand "sentences" that describe the particular truck.

So - NAPCO's would be:

K10703
& E62.

Which, in English, would be a 4WD 10 series short wheel base pickup with a stepside box (no mention of wood floor, because they are all wood floor).

If it was a long wheel base it would be captured in the model type, ie:

K10903
& E62.

If his truck was a fleetside, it would be:

K10703
& E63.

for a metal floor.

Wood floor would be:

K10703
& E63 & E81.

Stacking the RPOs like this helps you get very quickly to the specific part needed, especially with things with a lot of proliferation like radios, axles, radiators, engines, etc. A separate part number is pulled and new part created to cover each available permutation.

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