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Originally Posted by 68 TT
Looks like the project is coming along nicely.
Just a side note, I used to fabricate trailers professionally and those short rails you removed from the sides of the bed are usually added to give the outer bed rails extra strength to resist bending under load.
With yours being home built it may be over built with larger tubing than needed and not need these secondary rails.
If you do need them you may run into some deflection caused stress cracking of the tubing adjacent to the welds where the outriggers attach back to the main rails over the truck frame. Watch out for this.
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Thanks, Are you talking about the side rails? I will keep an eye on them. But I don't think the guy that build the bed intended the side rails to distribute the load. The rails may have especially where the bead meets the dove tail, but the guy that built the bed said him and one of his buddy built it in his backyard. They did not do a very good job. its straight and the inner and outer rails are almost square but the side supports and cross rails are not square, and the frame slopes up in the rear where they extended it just over an inch. That said the bed is made out of 1.5x3 3/16 wall tubing. I have considered adding a side rail back to it but it would be attached directly to the bed rails turning the 1.5x3 into the 1.5x4.5 I have also thought about adding another set of outriggers as well but i'm in the middle of adding more weight to the bed I don't know how heavy it will get.
Back to the build.
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New fuel sending unit to match the gauge.
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I started on the side skirts they will sit flush with the cab they sit 5 inches in and have will have a two inch lip. they will hide the tank and side boxes.
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