[shenk10]

Then I started to concentrate on the bed some. Both of my bedsides have bad rust at the tailgate posts where the tailgate mounts. I ended up removing all the spot welds and taking the outer bedside panel off and removing the tailgate post into the two pieces. The replacement tailgate post I got wasn't exactly what I needed and I couldn't find any place that sold the inner tailgate post so I got pieces out of the replacement post I got for both the inner and outer tailgate. I still need to finish it up but I'm very happy with it. The outer post still needs the holes drilled. The first picture is what it should look like from stock.


What mine looked like: