The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Making a Stovebolt Bed 1948 Chevy ½ Ton Bed cross sills

I have two questions for you all:
1- How many bed cross member sills does a ½ ton 1948 Chevy truck have? The truck we have has a sill above the fuel tank, another before the "hump" on the chassis and a third after the chassis "hump." Deve's bed instructions calls for two above the fuel tank.

2- The bed on frame sitting on the front two wood or rubber spacers allows the bed body to be inclined / sloped down in the front panel about I would guess more than inch (more or less as observed on the bubble of a level.) I guess this is the proper slope since the neck of the fuel tank (installed inside the frame just aft of the cab) aligned with the right hand bed side panel hole for the fuel tank neck extension.

I believe a 1/2 ton would have the following cross sills - one attached to the front of the bed, one forward of the frame hump, another behind the hump and then the rear cross-sill.

I think that the wood blocks and rubber pads should put the bed parallel with the frame (the part forward of the hump.) If your filler neck fits in the bedside hole, you're probably good.

Moving your post over to "Making a Stovebolt Bed" where it'll be more on-topic.

Let me clarify that the front spacers I'm installing are rubber (latest version instead of wood ones.)
Thanks for the response. Guess I don't need that second cross member / sill at the fuel tank area.

It may be that the 47-48 trucks with underbed fuel tank do have another cross sill under the bed. I vaguely recall seeing that the ones above the fuel tank were slightly different.
Hopefully someone with a 47-48 truck can answer your questions with more clarity.

Not sure it applies, but I've seen a picture where there was an extra cross sill and it was used to hold the under bed tire rack?

I think I've concluded that the two cross sills are only required on LONG BED trucks.