Moving Bed Closer to Cab?
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ive heard that some move have actually moved the cab back some. but im not too sure as how safe or recommended that would be.
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if you do it right a unibody wont crack and if it does you probably deserve it. you just need to get softer mounts for the cab and bed. you can just slide the cab back a half inch and the rear forward a half inch and it should be pretty close, a half inch wont matter much for wheel space.
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on a side note theres a unibody that been running around here for a couple years and our roads are shitty. looks the same as it always has.....
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they don't make unibodies, but what we call UNIBODY, is welding a piece of metal on the bed and cab, to shave the gap. Hence making it a unibody.
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too many know it alls on here....
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usually when people body drop they'll move the horns back a certain distance, and then the front and rear cab mounts the same distance doing two things, centering the front wheel in the front fender and closing the bed gap a little. i've see it done a couple times. its hard to do if you don't intend on body dropping
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wouldent it be easyer to move the bed forward???
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painttoad said:considering i've been in the autobody trade longer than you've been alive,maybe i know a bit more than you.i may not be hip with the slang on this forum but i am hip with REAL unibodies.
damn know-it-alls. do you have a better name for a truck with the bed and the cab joined? cause ford called it a unibody too
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dude what?? if you hit any good size hole and ur bed and cab flex that much you need to fix that, my bed doesnt even move even over sweet jumps. correction the bed doesnt move as much going through a corner but not enough to break a weld. if you suck that bad at welding you should kill yourself.bagged85 said:
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exactly. you need to add mounts similar to that of the cab so they move around as equal as possible.painttoad said:
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That's what I was thinking....I mean just watch your bed in the side mirror while driving, it moves a lot and if it was closer than the factory mounts allow I think it would hit the cab sooner or laterbagged85 said:
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I wasnt only talking to you painttoad, but ya since the cab is mounted on the frame solid and the cab is on rubber bushings dont you think its the cab moving not the bed
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