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Originally Posted by lakeroadster
Here are a couple photos that miht help. They are of my 65 SWB Step.
The remnants of the brackets on your cross sill looks like the same mounts. I ended up welding my brackets to the rear frame rail because they were stress cracked and breaking away. From the factory they are made from sheet metal, a small boxed sub-assembly.
On my Short-Step the mounts line right up with the rear frame rails. The pictures don't show this because I shortend the frame rails to allow clearance for a rear roll pan.
Unless you are going for a restoration quality appearance you could make your own brackets out of some structural steel angle or square tube. Like I said previously, the factory mount is pretty wimpy and prone to cracking.
Hope these help.
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Thanks for the info and the help with my question. I know that this truck was hit in the back end by a cement truck somewhere in its 46 years of exhistance. So Im guessing that when that happened he must have switched the bed out with something else. So I wonder if this is going to effect where the mounting holes are for the wood bed??? This sounds like this could really turn into a nightmare. The SAGA continues.
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