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Got some more stuff done over the last week... Yanked the bed and aux tank, cut the old welded on ranch bumper off and cleaned up the rear frame rails where it was welded. The frame under the bed is in immaculate shape. No pitting and what appears to be factory paint all the way back with the exception of where the bumper was welded on. The biggest fun I've got to sort out other than the rust in the cab floor is the floating 14 bolt hack job... I'm hoping I can come across a 4:11 ho52 in the not to distant future of not I'll buy new perches and re perch and re center the 14 bolt. I don't have pics of the bed but I'll probably ditch it... If not I'll at least throw a passenger bedside at it. I also scored a nice set of straight rust free doors for $150 from my neighbor(details posted in another thread). I plan to start to clean and repaint the frame and repair cab floor pretty soon. Gonna pull the front clip over the next week or two and start thinking about rust repair. Kinda on he fence about the complete floor vs. patching the existing one. Patching will be a faster process I believe but the floor will be a cleaner build, patching is better on my budget, patching is less work, replacing is the better way to do it... Haha the thoughts of a mad man!!! Pics to follow!