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Location: Bay City, MI
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What truck box sides work for 72 blazer?
Do 67-72 chevy truck 8 foot box sides work well for a 72 blazer (for patch panels)? I can get a good clean set cheap like $300 for a pair of take-offs. Is that a good deal and will they work?
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Re: What truck box sides work for 72 blazer?
thats a good deal on the take off bedsides, but i think guys are using short bedsides on the blazers, only need to cut on the front,with a lwb side you would have to cut front and back i believe.
maybe buy the lwb and sell them to a needing person and use the $$ to buy a set of swb sides?
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Re: What truck box sides work for 72 blazer?
Short bed sides work the best and you still have to trim some of the front to fit.
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Re: What truck box sides work for 72 blazer?
OK thanks
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Re: What truck box sides work for 72 blazer?
Just did that on my K5, have a thread over on CK5 about it.
I used the skin off a swb bedside and re-used the inners of the blazer. Couple pics for ya: Started here: ![]() Cut off the outer skin: ![]() Bedside I used: ![]() Amount that needs to be cut off: ![]() Fit up: ![]() Welded: ![]() Primed: ![]() |
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Re: What truck box sides work for 72 blazer?
So buying 2 good 8 ft boxside for around $300 are not going to work for me?
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Re: What truck box sides work for 72 blazer?
The 6 foot bedsides are correct from the tailights to the wheel opening, they are just too long at the front. The wheel opening on an 8 foot bed is shaped the same as the 6 foot and the blazer. You would have to trim the front and rear of the 8 foot bedsides to make them work. A lot more work and welding IMHO but you "could" make it work.
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