short bed

[JJSZABO]

Thats good - whatever it takes to cut the welds

Good luck and show us pics

[hotrod24]

well i got one side off i used my grinder with a cut off wheel on the spot welds it worked pretty good

[Fordeatinz71]

cool, it's interesting to see one of these beds disassembled...

[hotrod24]

yea this was the first time i done this and i think it was cool to

[JJSZABO]

Your making good work of it - keep it up

[hotrod24]

thanks jeff you was right about the bolts lol

[hotrod24]

 after i was done with the bed panel i started on the bolts on the floor and thay just keep turning i thought i could just turn the nuts and thay unbolt

[Captkaos]

If you stripped them out in the bed panel, you are going to have a hard time getting them out without tack welding them to the floor.  Did you soak the nuts down?

[hotrod24]

yea i put some wd40 on them only thing that i can think of is to grind them down

[80stepsideguy]

Dusty,
can you get at them from under the truck?If so you may need to take a sawzaw and cut them completly off.
It happened to me when i took my bed off the 1st time, all of the bed bolts kept turning and the nuts were rusted solid, i took alot of cut off wheels and a hammer and a chisel and totally destroyed the bolt heads..

thanks
pat

[ccz145a]

It's amazing how much space these things take up when disassembled

[hotrod24]

the nuts are ok but the bolts just keep turning i think the square thing on the bolts are rusty i could grind the bolt heads\

Dusty,
can you get at them from under the truck?If so you may need to take a sawzaw and cut them completly off.
It happened to me when i took my bed offthe 1st time, all of the bed bolts kept turning and the nuts were rusted solid, i took alot of cut off wheels and a hammer and a chisel and totally destroyed the bolt heads.But since you got pains in your hands i say your gonna need to cut them all off.

thanks
pat

[Captkaos]

The bed has a square hole in it to capture the bolt.  If the bolt is turning and the nut isn't coming loose, it has rounded these off.  You either need to tack weld the nut to the floor, or as Pat suggested cut all of the bolts off...   The short ones are going to be a pain, and the one that is behind the crossbrace will be too...

Are you going to replace the floor?  Not sure why you are tearing it down this far...

[hotrod24]

yea chris i am going to replace the floor i took my bed apart because i did not have a crane to pick it up and no one to help me pick it up

[77 step]

I used a cutting torch on mine ( after putting wet rags on the gas tank ) ... came right off!

A lot of help I am, right?

Sorry...here's the deal with grinding... if you grind the heads off, the bolts still won't come out because the square shank near the head won't fit through the hole.

I think your best bet is to use a cut off wheel on your grinder and cut them off from the bottom. 

Another option is to center punch them and drill the heads off. (again, you would have to keep going until you drilled the square shoulder off too)

Good luck!