After I pulled the brackets off the frame for the dump bed I saw the damage from the dump after so many years. The stress of the full bed in the up position was pulling the bolts through the frame.
The hydraulic fluid leak that coated the passenger side frame rail seemed to keep it great condition. lol.
So I took some measurements and figured out I could remove this section of th frame, exactly 18", and that would take my wheelbase to a standard C10 shortbed wheelbase.
So what the heck....She's a shortbed dually now.
