Roadtrip = New box....
Little back story...
My truck box on old RAE is in nice rust free shape..just the inside is beat. The floor is as wavy as the ocean, and I have tow big holes cut in the floor from the stacks that were in there. As well as some cracks and damage to the inside sides of the box. Outside the pass. side has the typical crunch...from what I can't say but it's been mudded over and looks OK but still bothers me. Anyway I have been keeping my eyes open for a new'er box, even looked at a couple locally. One was no better then what was on my truck and the guy wanted $400, He also had a nice mint one for $800....little too much for me. Well one night a couple months ago I was cruising the west coast craigslists and came across a listing for a 80-93 nice clean, straight rust free box. It was in Portland OR though. Luckily I have a couple friends who live just outside Portland. A phone call, some texting with the def seller, some paypal-ing and my friends had the box at their house. |
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Well last week I decided that Saturday I would get up early and drive down to Portland OR to pick up my "new to me" long box. Crossed the Canada/US border at 5:45am and was in Portland by 12pm. Visited for a few hours, then loaded up the box and got on my way. Left Oregon at 3:30pm and crossed the border into Canada at 10pm.
I had thought through the whole loading the box in the back of my truck and eventually came up with this... Cut up some 2x2's to fit in the bed stake pockets....then we would flip the box upside down and onto the stakes. Attachment 58089 Then a couple of clamps on the inside. http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/v...6.jpg~original And then 2 ratchet straps over the front, and back. Attachment 58090 Attachment 58091 Truck performed well. Drove 750+ miles and burned about 27 Gallons of fuel...that's about 28 mpg!! |
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Looks like an odd shaped camper shell... That was some good thinking using the 2 x 4's.
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We've done that too works really well, it really helped keep the rain off the engines that we were hauling also. looks good.
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That's the best way to haul a truck bed, once i tried to use a trailer, the trailer looks wide enough to fit the bed, but it never is and the bed always ends up damaged because theres only a few inches on each side, i ended up hanging the bed off the side of the trailer and strapping it down.
Only thing is, what are you gonna do about your trim molding on the bottom? they are held on with those little metal pins, and i see the little metal pins aren't on the new bed. Those little metal pins are a body man's worst nightmare when it comes to removing them :D |
I was gona do the same thing but instead, I built a curb out ot 2x12 and fastened it to the trailer and lag bolted the bed to the curb.
I knew if I had to roll it upside down it would end up damaged it just my luck! |
Originally Posted by thrashingcows
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truck performed well. Drove 750+ miles and burned about 27 gallons of fuel...that's about 28 mpg!!
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Originally Posted by Twitchy
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how?!
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Originally Posted by Twitchy
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how?!
Originally Posted by gyman98
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He's canadian our gallons are bigger
I use the US gallon (3.78L) in all my figuring. |
Originally Posted by Big Bird
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Looks like an odd shaped camper shell... That was some good thinking using the 2 x 4's.
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Originally Posted by thrashingcows
(Post 3094498)
I use the US gallon (3.78L) in all my figuring. |
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