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Old 07-31-2018, 11:58 PM   #24
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Re: Frankentruck

I had noticed that the bed sides wiggled around a ton when the truck went over bumps. With the steel plate in place, I had not noticed that the wood bed was actually a structural part of the bed. I decided to redo the bed wood myself. My dad and I got some wood, ripped it down with a friend's table saw, routed the groves ourselves, mocked it up, and stained it with a 2 in 1 stain and sealer. I had left what was left of the old wood in the bed so I could still drive the truck until I was ready to actually replace the boards. After removing all the rusty bolts, my ratchet was clogged with some much dust that it stopped working. I had to blow it apart, clean everything, then put it back together.
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1963 C10 - Frankentruck 283, 3 speed with overdrive
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