Slick 60's

Has anybody replaced their bed floor using a replacement from a newer truck? I really want to use a floor panel that looks original. So far haven't been able to find any in reproduction. Plan B is to find a more recent (still avail from a dealer) floor panel that is close to correct size and fab it up to fit. Everybody at the shop says use a wood floor...then I see all the pics of uni's and stylesides with perfect floors....gotta find one.

Suggestions?

backyardresto found that an '08? pan was gonna work for his truck somewhere in this thread
http://www.fordtruk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6026
but i don't have an hour to browse thru it LOL

I am doing a 75 floor in a 66 8' bed . It was a lot more work then I figured
but it wasn't hard to figure out how to do I'm almost ready for primer. email me if you got questions. Tom tom2536atverizondotnet change the at to@ and the dot to .

This discussion has been here a number of time before, it was in the link that John has given, but is buried and may have been deleted, but a more recent one is here with some pictures.

http://fordtruk.com/forums/viewtopic.ph ... ght=#79491

It was BackyardResto that did it, but be aware of the number of spot welds that need to be drilled out.

Dean

Well aware of the spot welds...already did that. Anyway, thanks a lot for the help. I'll call Ford tomorrow. FYI, I looked in the computer and my shop cost for a 6 1/2 foot panel will be about $290 (I think it lists for around $360).

64low-n-slow wrote:Well aware of the spot welds...already did that. Anyway, thanks a lot for the help. I'll call Ford tomorrow. FYI, I looked in the computer and my shop cost for a 6 1/2 foot panel will be about $290 (I think it lists for around $360).

part number I bought



Just over 200 spot welds. Not really that bad of job. The stamping is slightly different but for the type of job I want with no dings or dents its much easier to replace floor. Width is perfect but length will need a slight trim. New one also had additional support behind wheel wells.

I stood the box up to make the swap easier. The 290 sounds right as know it was just under 300.00.

BackyardResto wrote:
part number I bought

Is that for a long or short bed?

Thanks BYR...Any pics of the floor going in. I'm curious exactly how much "trimming".

I have a 64 6' style side with a bad floor. The front panel along the seam with the floor and the entire floor front to back are shot.

I bought an 87 6' style side bed. Some time in the mid 80's Ford started making things out of galvanized steel or coating things with a glavanizing compound. This bed has been on the road it's whole life in Ohio and the underside of the bed looks almost like new, a light gray color. The braces and the under side of the floor are clean and gray in color. The surface of the floor inside the bed although painted must have a similar coating because it only has minor surface rust.

The bed appears to be built the same way as the one on the 64 with two slight differences, the way the cross braces are installed under the floor and the way the side panels attach to the floor.

My bed only needs the center section of the floor between the wheel wells side to side front to back replaced. This is a one piece panel spot welded to the floor section in front of and behind the wheel well.

I plan to remove the under floor braces, then cut out the center panel of the floor just inside the seam, including three inches of the front panel and slide it onto the exposed braces and 3" hole at the bottom of the front panel in the 64.

I removed the floor in the 64 in 6 sections. I only need to strip and repair the cross braces (pieces form the 87 bed) and trim the edge where the center section attaches to the floor on the sides.

If you need to replace the entire floor NPD sells the entire floor for the 67 to 72 8' bed truck including cross braces for about $300 plus shipping. From what I have seen the 6' bed from 64 to 72 appear to be the same or close enough it does not matter.

I have been taking pictures as I go I'll post them when I get this finished.

Hope this helps.

VV