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kid vishus
Gearhead Posts: 4254
From: middle of NC
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 04-24-2003 06:03 PM
   
Ok, I can find the stupid bolts that hold the bed on KK's Lightning, but the question is, How in the he!! do you get to them so you can get them loose? Also, once you do get to them, how do you get them loose? The two bolts clear in the back I can reach, but all they do is spin round and round.
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 32655
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 04-24-2003 06:21 PM
Aren't they like carriage bolts? If so, it's drill time.  ------------------
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67stang
Gearhead Posts: 1428
From: Lynn Haven FL
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-24-2003 08:12 PM
Or weld nuts to the head of the carriage bolts.
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kid vishus
Gearhead Posts: 4254
From: middle of NC
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 04-25-2003 05:27 PM
I'm thinking that using a "big red wrench" on them is going to be the easiest and quickest. I'll just need to get some new bolts when I'm done.
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skips69
Gearhead Posts: 241
From: Catlin, IL USA
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-28-2003 04:14 PM
If they are like the older trucks, then they are the carriage bolt style. I usually have to grind the heads off (being careful not to knick up the bed if you don't have a bedliner to cover your boo-boos), and knock them straight down and out with a punch and hammer. They are hardened, so takes a little time. Watch the gas tank though if it is directly underneath any..............
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MLariviere
Moderator Posts: 3277
From: Biddeford,Me.USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 04-28-2003 10:33 PM
Yup,carriage bolts into thin sheet metal,with corroded threads. The old Ford tradition.  Don't dub with them,cut them. The bed is junk anyways,right? get a sawzall,a 12 pack of beer and a 12 pack of blades and give 'er hell.
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