Ronno6
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- Joined
- May 14, 2018
- Posts
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- Location
- South Mississippi
- First Name
- Ron
- Truck Year
- 1984
- Truck Model
- C10
- Engine Size
- 355
The OEM deck had steel spacers thru the wood deck at the mounting bolts.
The holes I bored in my white oak bed boards are off location a tad, enough to prevent me from installing those spacers.
I believe that those spacers insure a good solid fastening of the bed cross braces to the chassis, without clamping
down on the deck boards.
Can I live without those spacers, or do I need to cut thru the sidewall in order to allow for the lack of clearence at the point of
interference with the bolt??
That would still allow a solid metal to metal fastening.
But, are they necessary?
The holes I bored in my white oak bed boards are off location a tad, enough to prevent me from installing those spacers.
I believe that those spacers insure a good solid fastening of the bed cross braces to the chassis, without clamping
down on the deck boards.
Can I live without those spacers, or do I need to cut thru the sidewall in order to allow for the lack of clearence at the point of
interference with the bolt??
That would still allow a solid metal to metal fastening.
But, are they necessary?
