Roger, Without standing their with a beer in my hand going "how the */%^ do we do this?" Here is the first thing that comes to mind. Can you get underneath the bed rails? If so consider fabbing up some kind of a sub-frame with a center bar running the width of the bed. This would allow you to secure under the bed rails and either lift the bed off with an a-frame or a cherry picker. I don't know how high you need to go and the cherry picker might run out of lift at that special moment. How far does the bed need to go to clear your cab? If you totally remove those body lift blocks that might buy you some room on that cab extension as well. The come-along idea might fly as a last resort but that would be a little like sex between consenting porcupines very-very-very carefully. I am bottling beer to-day so probably won't respond until I am finished. If the wood guys get bored with this stuff you can always get me off list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good luck man. Regards Larry Stansifer Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Sun Tzu. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Bachelder Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 5:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Pulling the bed off the Frame Hello guys, Ok here goes. I started another project on my 90 GMC. I'm doing a bed off restoration this year. Here is what i have done so far. First, i am doing this out side. unfortunately i don't have a garage. I started by putting 2 quarter inch pieces of plywood on the driveway. I then backed up the truck on top of it, so the wood would cover from the back of the cab to the end of the frame. I then broke the tension on the tires. I have a custom made Putnam hitch on the truck, so i placed the Jack stands under that. I then took off the tires. next, I took off the mud flaps. then completely unwired everything under the bed. The 1998 corvette roll pan, and the PIAA back up lights. Next, i undid the Gas unit that is connected to the bed. I wrapped the hoses with shrink wrap, then put a couple of plastic quart bags on it and wrapped it with duct tape so the water would stay out. I did the same with all of the wiring with the Roll pan and PIAA lights too. I then undid the Corvette roll pan, and took it out along with the tailgate. Next, i tried to loosen the bed mount bolts. I was only able to get 3 out of the 8 bolts loosened. But i was per paired for this. I squirted some liquid wrench penetrating oil on the remainder of the bolts and let sit over night. I was able to get another two the next day before snapping the third one in half. I then broke out the sawzall and cut the last 3 bolts along the top of the frame. everything is loosened and unbolted to take off the bed. So here is where i am now, a dilemma. I have a racer back on the cab. it has only about a quarter of an inch between it and the top rail of the bed. I really don't want to take off this, but i need to get the bed off with out touching the paint. I think i will put a towel on top of the rails just in case when pulling the bed. Here is the problem. I really don't have 3 other strong guys to lift the bed off the frame and put on the 2 by 4 box that i made. So some how i need to get the bed off of the frame. Now here is what makes this so much more complicated. I have a 3 inch body lift in the truck. and i still have three bolts in the 3 inch blocks that i had to cut. I'm thinking about getting some cummalongs and trying some how to pull the bed onto the box i made. except this is making me a little nervous, because the 3 inch blocks could come off the top of the frame and do damage to the custom exhaust. If anyone has any ideas about how to go about removing this bed off the frame, I would love to hear some suggestions. 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