nother thought - the long bed is longer both sides of the fender, waaay more trouble than it's worth to cut the bed down even if you do shorten the frame, easier to find a useable short bed - then cut the frame to fit
"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