[benoit454]

HA LOL!!!!!!!!!!! tons of problems trying to take mine off. But yours could be easier. I had trouble getting the bumper brackets off the inner ones because they were too far down to let me get a socket on the 2 rear bed bolts, then one of them had the head spot welded to the frame and bumper bracket I had to try and chisel loose. But before that my hitch was in the way and one bolt was stripped, I had to grind the nut off it to remove it. My outer bumper brackets were welded to the frame and I couldn't get the bumper off the brackets because the welded nut on back came loose. I had exhaust hangers in the way of the 2nd 2 in the back but those unbolted easy enough. The one by the gas tank was gone, the front two weren't bad and the 2nd one back on the PS wasn't bad either. my problems were all in the back. The PS bumper bracket inner one had a bolt holding it that came loose enough for me to barely wiggle the bracket out of the way to get to the last bolt in the back on the ps. Due to the weld I had to drive on a bigger socket, starting around a 21 or so and working my way down until I got to an 18. I'd drive it on, hit it with the impact, when it started spinning without turning the bolt change sockets to one smaller, and repeat until I got to an 18 and got it off. I had to keep going in and out with some of them, they just would not come down, the ds rearmost broke and there's another one that's broke that a PO did. Plus the missing one lol. I think there was another missing one by the exhaust hanger too. So I think I had both fronts, both rears, and one 2nd back on the PS, I think that's all mine had since they were missing or broke. No clue what I'm going to do about the broke ones, maybe turn the bed over and try some liquid wrench torch, pipe wrench whatever I can find or think of to try.