[theastronaut]

The first thing I started on was separating the old bed floor flange from the bed sides by drilling the spot welds. Also had to grind down the old welds from the replacement bed floor. The left rear corner was just about the only spot that I didn't have to completely cut out and remake, more on that later. The rust that was under the flange was sandblasted.






Easier to see the old bed floor flange, and the welds and edges of the replacement floor here. It's an 8' bed so there was 16 feet of this to fix. This was the easiest spot, the rest had to be completely cut out and replaced.









Cleaned up the body line on the outside of the panel.