The front of the bed of my D250 is cracking right where the front of the bed wraps around to the side of the bed. It's cracking right at that hard break in the sheet metal all the way downward. It was like this when I bought it. It had a tool box on it and I'm guessing maybe the previous owner overloaded the tool box and the bed was cracking and this just accelerated it. Any ideas on that?

 

I have at least 1 that is cracked there and I know the truck was never abused and never hauled more then a lunch pail. I had a chevy crack there as well.

 

mine just cracked and its brand new. check around the corner for a small dent or large dent where something may have slllliiid into it and banged the corner real hard... thats what cracked mine.

 

mine has a crack in all 4 corners. I just got the mig welder out and welded it up, then grinded it down smooth and put some paint on it. I noticed one cracked back out though...

 

Ever haul a slide in camper?

If you do and use the little plates on the front of the bed for the front tiedowns that'll do it. Much better to get a bar tha attaches to the frame to hold the camper in.

 

humm... keep that in mind, thanks

 

Before my old 93 had the flatbed it was cracked the same, but it always hauled way to heavy and had a goose in tow most every day, so I figured that was the reason. My "new" single cab is doing well.....so far.
I also noticed these trucks like to crack on the back of the cab, each one of mine have done it, some all the way up, some just started before I "fixed" it. I'm sure this has to do with body mount sagg.

 

Huh. we have some crazy loads against the sides of the bed but haven't ever cracked it on my truck. even loaded feed against racks that were inserted into the stake pockets.

 

Some of those tool boxes had long mounting bolts that went down and attached to the frame. I have one here just like that. What it does is it holds the front section of the bed floor rigid with the frame while the rest of the bed body flexes. The weakest high loading point during the flexing is what usually breaks.

 

Mine has cracked at both rear corners. It starts right where the diamond plate rail cap stops and on around the corner. Its never been stressed otherwise.

 

My dually too. PO told me it had a cheap headache rack that didn't support back down the bedrail. Oh well.... some mig welding stopped it after it was half way down the bed!!

 

Mine are cracked on the top of both front corners, but that's it. They haven't cracked downwards at all...yet.

 

Mine had cracked downwards about 12 inches. I stripped off the paint around it and welded it all back up and smoothed it out. It's not perfect, but I'm not using this truck for show, but to haul the kids around and get better mileage than my 302. I had a pretty busy/productive day and got some stuff done on my cummins.

 

Do tell!

 

Well, I got the bed all welded up and ground down. I got the headache rack and tool box mounted and I even had time to build me the little idle adjustment bracket from the sticky. It seems a previous owner already knew about the fuel screw as it is fully adjusted to the collar. I'll be ordering a new one without the collar after I get paid in a week and then cranking it up some more.