Don't know if it will help, but here's how I got mine out. No bed in the way.
After driving out the lock pin I rigged up some plumbing fixtures to attach a 10mm 1.25 pitch bolt to my slide hammer.
Screwed the bolt into the hole for the grease fitting and attached the slide hammer
Soaked everything well with PB Blaster, then used the slide hammer to pull the bushing.
When I got near the end it didn't want to move any more, so I carefully jacked the spring up and down until the unworn part of the bushing lined up and out it came.
Tim
I am currently digging back in to a 1953 3800 (one ton) with a nine foot bed. I've owned it since 1979, and drove it until 1982 (or so). My wife got me involved in restoring it back in 2002, got the body removed and the frame redone, then things came up. Now I am retired and starting again. If anyone is interested I have photos on Imagur (
https://timwhiteblues.imgur.com/ ). I live way back in the woods in the Ozarks on 40 acres at the end of a 2 1/2 mile private road.
Tim
