Task Force - Bed Roll End Treatment Photos

[Dan in Pasadena]

I DID do a search and would have thought there would be several threads on this, but found nothing.

I'm positive I don't want to leave the ends open and I'm pretty sure I don't want the lights that go in the tube ends, but maybe there are treatments I've not seen that are worth consideration.

I'd love to see pictures of yours or that you've saved. Nothing too radical, I want somewhat traditional but clean looking.

[OrrieG]

I think the Dutch build did something trick with his step side. I would check out Delmo's threads too.

[Kim57]

Check out Kabwe's build also.
Kim

[Kabwe]

Rods57's build

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

I think the Dutch build did something trick with his step side. I would check out Delmo's threads too.

I did a search on the word, "Dutch". There are about a dozen screen names using the word but none of them had a thread about this subject. A little help?

I love Bam's end treatment but it is a bit too custom for my truck and besides, I don't have the fab chops to pull it off even if I tried. I want my truck to look BETTER, not screwed up!

Anymore photos? I knew a guy once with a TF that not only capped the ends but put a flat piece of sheet plate from the front to the back UNDER the bed roll to seal the "tube" and to provide a place to attach industrial strength Velcro so he could run an old school looking vinyl tonneau without using the screw in snaps.

[Kabwe]

Well forget you Dan if you don't like my rounded bed corners.lol

You did not say what you thought about the pics I posted of Rod57's bed. Its very neat and simple in design.

[OrrieG]

Link to split63 Dutch build

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=530869

[Russell Ashley]

Check out Stepside Jim's thread also. Flat end plate but extended about an inch.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=541132

[_Ogre]

slight bed rail mod, nothing to radical

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by Kabwe

Well forget you Dan if you don't like my rounded bed corners.lol.

Ha ha, yeah, I didn't like yours, 'ya hack!

Man, I LOVE yours. They're absolutely perfect with your pancaked hood, shaved drip rails & signals, rounded door corners, etc. Perfect for a custom just not for a rodstoration driver. Plus, man you must be like Kareem - you've got Hall of Fame fab chops and think everyone else does too. When you look up hack in the dictionary there's a picture of me there. I'm just learing how to weld, man. I aspire to be 1/4 as good as you are though. I'd like to come over a see your truck but if I did I'd probably want to come home and throw rocks at mine.

Originally Posted by Kabwe

You did not say what you thought about the pics I posted of Rod57's bed. Its very neat and simple in design.

You know what? I didn't even see the reference to Rod. I kinda brushed past that photo thinking that those were the FRONT of your bedsides - DUH, huh?

Yeah, those are much more my speed. Possible tapered a bit more on the bottom. DO you just cut a flat piece of sheet to fit, mig it in and flap disc it to blend, or are there subtleties to the backside of those fill pieces?

[Dan in Pasadena]

Yeah, yeah Ogre. I figured you'd chime in at some point. Excellent for some future searcher looking for inspiration but for me? Riiight. Your truck says, "Ok, first build a COMPLETELY CUSTOM HIGH END BED FOR YOUR TRUCK, then...." lol.

Man, I admire your chops. I wouldn't even have thought of your solution much less try to build it myself. You realize don't you that yours would cost tens of thousands of dollars if someone had a custom fabricator duplicate it? Looks awesome.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

Link to split63 Dutch build

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=530869

Orrie, thanks for this. I finally found the bed roll treatment in the thread, and I really like it, BUT his method seems to create a sort of "dead end" where water can collect and cause long term rust out. I added a question tohis thread as I didn't see him seal off the tube roll in any way - I may have missed it - and I also don't see a weep hole nor any rust preventative on the backside of the metal he added. Granted, his truck is a full on custom so maybe washing it crudely like I will do with mine via a garden hose won't apply. But I thought I'd ask.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by Kabwe

Bam,
After typing what I did above about 63Split's bed roll treatment, I went back and looked at yours and I wonder if you don't also have a dead end inside the transition you welded in? Did you do anything to close off the tube where it ends.... maybe 1/2" from the bed side? Or did you drill a weep hole underneath where we can't see? If you did, did you put any kind of rust preventative inside there so it won't weep rust down yor paint later? I'm kinda thinking of the Eastwood stuff they sell to spray inside frame rails. I plan to use it around the cab roof from inside before installing the headliner.

[Kabwe]

Dan I epoxy primed the bottom of the pieces before I welded them together. taped off about a 1/4 for the edge for welding. I do believe we over think this stuff the factory did not put much thought into it and these trucks lasted 30-40 years. I will be dead and gone before this truck rust again.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by Kabwe

...the factory did not put much thought into it and these trucks lasted 30-40 years. I will be dead and gone before this truck rust again.

50 plus, but who's counting?!

True we'll be dead and gone and somebody else will be driving MY truck that I sweated over. There ya go, bumming me out on a Saturday night.