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#1465213 Mon Sep 05 2022 05:11 AM
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TheYeti Offline OP
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Hi guys

I’m looking for the pickup bed assembly drawing for a 51 3800 (I don’t suppose it really matters if it’s a short be or long bed for how it goes together

Does anyone have the relevant pages of the manual they can post up?

Thanks in advance

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It does matter between the sizes
The one ton box front is different than the lighter trucks
There is a re-enforcement rib in the center
And all the bed bolts go through the bottom lip and capture all the metal strips unlike the 1/2 and 3/4 ton
There are posts on this topic someplace and I recall putting some photos in it with the discussion about the differences.
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Originally Posted by 2ManyTrucks
It does matter between the sizes
The one ton box front is different than the lighter trucks
There is a re-enforcement rib in the center
And all the bed bolts go through the bottom lip and capture all the metal strips unlike the 1/2 and 3/4 ton
There are posts on this topic someplace and I recall putting some photos in it with the discussion about the differences.
-s

Thanks mate

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Mar-K has a wonderful website that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about your truck bed and they will happily sell you parts for it.


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What Martin said. Mar-K.

https://www.mar-k.com/


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If you need pictures of anything, my bed has never been apart. And the truck is here at the house today. Just pm me.

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This guy has a good video, he uses, I believe chevy 3600 panels and sectioned in a new panel to make it 9 foot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnoj3kzGgnU [youtube.com]

Last edited by Peggy M; Tue Sep 06 2022 04:29 PM.

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1954 3600 Chevy Truck
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Whitedog and Peggy,

Thanks for the update on the "YouTube" link.

Thanks again for sharing! wave

Last edited by Gdads51; Tue Sep 06 2022 04:51 PM.

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Not sure if this helps much, but here are some photo [app.photobucket.com] of the 9ft bed, with a schematic of the truck. I tried to post that image here but the UBB Attachment Manager doesn't support that file type.


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