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Making it look easy indeed!

The bed needed to be re-worked to sit on the new frame and match the body lines of the cab. Adam carefully cut the cross-braces from the bottom of the bed, then welded in new steel to reinforce the supports.

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This channel allowed for the bed to sit lower on the frame.

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New bed supports were attached to the Lightning frame to match the ‘69 bed mounts.

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The guys are doing Nice job Kevin!

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Originally Posted by waynieZ (Post 594416)

The guys are doing Nice job Kevin!

Thanks, they sure are.

You know how these things go, you solve one challenge and another pops up. This time, the fuel tank needed to be shortened to fit the shorter wheelbase.

We ordered a new tank so that we were not cutting and welding on a tank that once held fuel. That’s just something we don’t do in our shop, especially when a new replacement is around $200.00.

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The tank would have to be about this long to clear the axle.

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We cut the tank, and Adam TIG welded in a new side. We estimate we only lost a couple gallons of total capacity, and all the original fuel pump, sender, and line fittings connect right up.

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Neat idea, bet the truck will be fun.....mine is.

How are you planning on getting fuel into the tank?

Just curious what you guys come up with.

Keep up the good work.

Sean

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Originally Posted by hackster (Post 595822)

Neat idea, bet the truck will be fun.....mine is.

How are you planning on getting fuel into the tank?

Just curious what you guys come up with.

Keep up the good work.

Sean

We have a plan to use the stock filler neck on the '69 and pipe it to the 2002 tank. It will look cool, the only drawback is that it will probably be a slower fill process, but we'll see.

Thanks for the encouragement!

We've followed your truck build, that is very cool, great work!

Beautiful job on that tank man. That's not easy. Cool ass build.