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| | | | Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 603 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 603 | Got the bed sitting on the GMC 370 now. Would welding an angle-iron tab, with a hole, and using J-Bolts be the best way to mount it?
My frame has a choice of several holes to use. Might have to be more of an "L" Bolt to be able to insert it into the existing holes.
I am thinking of making the bolts out of the 1/2" U-bolts that came with the bed. They were not long enough for my frame width.
Last edited by Old GMC Gold; 03/19/2014 9:28 PM.
57 GMC LCF 370 55 John Deere 40-W 59 John Deere 430-W 2000 GMC 4x4 56 John Deere 420-W Pix on Photobucket | | | | | Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,747 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,747 | Wow! I can't get any kind of picture in my head for this one. That is OK I don't know s%$# about GMC but mounting a bed can't be that hard to see can it? Got a picture for us? Cause I have no clue. There might be a better way...or not.
Steve H
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,186 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,186 | I've seen everything from tabs built onto the bed so it could be bolted to the frame to just plain threaded rod with a flat plate under the frame. How was it mounted before you took it apart?
Bruce | | | | | Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 603 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 603 | There was no bed on it when I got it. A 'J' bolt hooks in a hole in the frame then goes through a hole in a tab on the side of the bed rails.
These are on the outside of the truck frame as opposed to "clamping" both sides of the frame with U-bolts or flat plates. This eliminates squeezing the frame on the inside.
Anyway, since my first post, I went with the "J" bolts. Looks good and seems to be very secure. I have driven it over rough ground and nothing has moved at all.
57 GMC LCF 370 55 John Deere 40-W 59 John Deere 430-W 2000 GMC 4x4 56 John Deere 420-W Pix on Photobucket | | | | | Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,747 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,747 |
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