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Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher
Very nice work. I was involved with making a bed wider on a 53 1.5 ton bed many years ago. It was more work than the owner thought but it fit that truck a lot better IMO.
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Ya more work than putting stock box together but compared to making my box sides on my orange truck and mounting it my way, this is not too bad.
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Originally Posted by dsraven
have you thought of simply building a header or tailgate from scratch? does it need to look stock at this point? possibly a header and tailgate from a newer more modern truck that you narrow instead of add to? a tailgate with a center latch, possibly reskinned to suit your style?
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Yes that's my plan with a bit of a twist.
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Originally Posted by dsraven
a metal fab shop with a press brake could likely fab up some new cross sills for you as well, if inclined to have no seams. I had some fabbed up for my box mods since new ones were non existant.
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I'm just using 1x2" tube and some angle
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Originally Posted by Tempest67
when I put my box on, I wanted to maximize the depth of the box, so I lowered the fenders on the box about 2 inches, or, another way of saying, I raised the box 2 inches.
The running boards remained level, but the box raised up.
Look closely at the distance between the top of the fender and the top of the bed on these 2 pics.
No one has ever noticed, and the box is that much deeper.
Just an idea.
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Thats a cool idea and ya you can hardly notice.