[Jennandrand]

I’d say the biggest pain is all the spot welds. Think you’ve got em all? Wrong! They are all over the place and sometimes hard to identify because of rusty surfaces. I also remember removing the floor around the bedsides to be a little tricky because the edge of the floor has a lip that holds it in place and makes it hard to get out from under the bedsides. Unbolting rusty bolts hooked to the crossmembers was also quite an ordeal. Carriage bolts and the floor was so rusted that the heads of the bolts just sheared the sheet metal when I tried to loosen the nuts. I ended up cutting a lit in the center of many bolts that I could stick a flat screwdriver in to help hold them still.
I used cutting wheel, air chisel, weld cutting bits, plenty of WD40 or PB Blaster on the bolts, and cut mine out in pieces. First timer, kept the bedsides on, mine def took more than a few hours of trial and error. I replaced with 2 piece front and rear panels.