My bed has been out of alignment causing a tire to rub up against an inner fender.

The current bedwood is rotted so the bed to frame bolts are sitting in questionable wood and were a bit loosy goosy.

I ground off the heads last night and pulled the six bolts off. I need to install new bolts in a temp fashion until I replace the bed. And the new bolts will have to be sitting directly on the cross sill. Now I have a couple of questions:

1) Do I need rubber pads? There were none... Mar-K catalog shows 8 - why 8 if there are only 6 bolts??
2) Where do the rubber pads go? The technical info page on Mar-K (Bed Mounting Information) has some glitch and only shows a cross section illustration for F**d....
3) Anyone ever drill a hole all the way thru the wood so the bolt directly sits on the cross sill ... then put a wooden plug in the bedwood to hide the hole?? Any reason why that won't work?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Larry Bear

55.5 Chevy 3100 Panel
In the Stovebolt Gallery