The Ulitmate Thread - Custom bed pictures.

anyone got more pics of the actual bed frame work?   specically how you guys mount bed  to frame   need some ideas

  heres some shots of my bedfloor, wheeltubs cut to match the radius of the tire                          

I will play... my mazda I just did. I sectioned the wheel wells out of the height, then moved them towards the center so they became wider and filled in the sides. It is body droppped a total of 6" also. Then I cut a hole for access to the hydraulics. I will next be adding some hinges with either a linear actuator, or a shock and a latch.

I have a question, what caulking do i use that i can do body work over? or no caulking? Thanks.

There are some AMAZING bed treatments in this thread! Some make me wish that I would have showed off some of my suspension work, but I also really like being able to lay in the bed of my truck at a drive-in movie theatre. Thats the whole reason I wanted to keep the stock bed floor... Couldn't keep the stock tubs due to the 9.5" wide wheels, but I wanted something that appeared "stock-ish" So I didn't want to go with the round tubs. I'm 99% happy with the way it came out. I'm just waiting to get my pop-up motorcycle gas-cap flush mounted into a bed rib.                  

This is my first attempt at a sheetmetal bed and my first shot at the bead roller. Its not pefect but its getting line-x so we figured it'd be a good test dummyr. That and its my buddies truck, not a real customer. haha. He's helping me along the way since the rolling is a 2 man operation.  I lasered out some panels for flush mount access doors since his lights have to be installed from the back.  I didnt install the culvert tub, that was done already.              

that looks really kick ass Joel!!!