starting issue? as in 'startin's the hard part'? standard pickup bedwood is ¾" - width of the boards varies too - do you have some original wood to go by? - see this page - not that it makes a difference, but is this a 55 1st or 2nd? and is it the standard extra long bed on the one ton?

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics