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Originally Posted by 1971Stepside
I was just looking at the Boyd tank and thinking about bolting the bed down and the bumper on...looks like the tank may have to be dropped to do this on mine.
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Yeah there seems to be an order of operations with all of those components. Here are the challenges that I have encountered on my dad's (wood floor) and mine (steel floor):
-Non-existence of holes in the frame rails for bumper brackets (LWB to SWB conversion issue)
-Locating the fuel filler in the bed wood
-Installing the wood strip with the filler in it (this is a pain if you have the Boyd flush mount fill).
-Installing the bumper brackets with the tank installed.
-Installing the bed wood with the tank installed.
Maybe the order for you is bumper, tank, bed, wood? Or bumper, bed, wood, tank? It gets hard to install the hardware to secure the wood to the bed with the tank installed, but if you have enough slack in your fuel lines and wiring maybe you can drop the tank with everything hooked up and reinstall the same way?
Either way, you're on the right path with the Boyd tank. I wish I would have spent more money and bought it. If you weld the mounting strips to the frame then it makes tank removal/reinstall a breeze if you have enough slack in your fuel lines and wiring.