removing Chevy 1500hd bed without damage

91samurai

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Soon I will need to pull the bed off a 1500hd quadrasteer for a frame replacement. The quadrasteer beds have the fiberglass fenders like the dually trucks do. Anyone have experience with these? I have a 2 post lift but will have to move it off the lift to strip the rest of the frame.
 
Got a tree in the yard or a car port to suspend it from? I use our forklift but I'm assuming you don't have one
 
I've used a chain hoist tied to a beam with rope into the stake pockets to lift a dually bed, when pretty smooth. using the lift and dollys seems painless.
 
Hook some 1000lb ratchet straps through the stake pockets to the lift arms and build a 2x4 wheeled table to set it on

Get 2 8ft 2x4s,1 8ft 4x4, some 4inch screws and 4 casters
build a 4ft x4ft box with the 2x4s and cut 2ft legs from the 4x4,the rest pretty much self explanatory
 
4 guys and a stack of pallets to sit it on is the fastest . By yourself, jack it up from below, sit it on some 2x6 between the bed and frame so you can shimmy back onto a stack of pallets.
 
[486 said:
;n256732]four dudes is the quickest
though your beer supply will take a hit
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Seriously, 4 or 5 guys can lift that off and set it where you want it pretty damn quick.
 
If working by yourself x 2 ratchet straps through the hooks or the stake pockets. Pick up with engine hoist or 2 post lift and set on cart. I have done many this way by myself.
 
Fuck asking for help.. go out and get your helicopter license buy surplus helicopter (shouldn’t cost more than 6-900k). then place helicopter behind truck and attach lifting straps to stake pockets, completely unbolt bed from truck ( this is critical don’t miss that one fastener). take off and lift bed then set on sawhorses. Problem solved and you didn’t ask for help. Sit back and eat a plate of bacon because you are an American. Or just rig a lift using engine hoist forklift or overhead beams and attach to stake pockets. Whatever floats your goat.
 
92 s dime said:
Hook some 1000lb ratchet straps through the stake pockets to the lift arms and build a 2x4 wheeled table to set it on

Get 2 8ft 2x4s,1 8ft 4x4, some 4inch screws and 4 casters
build a 4ft x4ft box with the 2x4s and cut 2ft legs from the 4x4,the rest pretty much self explanatory
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This is about what I was thinking.


Pull the the tail gate for less weight? Or will the bedsides move to much without the tailgate latched?
 
Broncokyle88 said:
Set a couple of 4x4 across a set of saw horses. You can even anchor the lumber to them for safety if you are a pussy. Back truck up to saw horses. You and a buddy can shimmy the bed back and onto the saw horses. Or with 3 friends you can easily pick it up and set it on them. But we all know you don’t have 3 friends:flipoff2:

Pull the bumper before fucking with the bed. It makes life a lot easier. And good luck with your bed bolts. If the frame is that far gone, I imagine bed rails are in your future too.
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That’s how I pulled the body on my zuk years ago. I just don’t want to crack the fenders. maybe use some cribbing up under the bed so the weight is on the floor.

The truck doesn’t have any rust at all. It’s been in the family for the last 15 years, NC it’s whole life. The frame is bent too far for me to try to fix from a wreck
 
Go buy a harbor freight furniture dolly. Build a 4'x4'x2' high 2x4 box and put the furniture dolly wheels on it. Lift the box with your lift and roll the box under it boom your done.
Beds arent that heavy. I crawled under my shortbed on saw horses put my back to it and lifted it up off the ground while my buddy put a taller set of horses under it so we could back the truck under it. Then the two of us lifted it while my wife moved the horses.
 
91samurai said:
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The truck doesn’t have any rust at all. It’s been in the family for the last 15 years, NC it’s whole life. The frame is bent too far for me to try to fix from a wreck
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The frame is bent, but the bed is still good? Where'd it get hit?
 
Stuck said:
Go buy a harbor freight furniture dolly.
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I've got a couple of those.
The casters on them are the strangest exercise in geometry I've ever encountered.
All the angles appear correct, the wheels roll, and the swivels rotate freely.
But, every time I have weight on the fucking things, every fucking one of the fucking wheels with any amount of fucking weight on it fucking wants to fucking skid sideways.

If anything is a reason to start ww3, it's those goddamn things.
 
ConwayMuddy said:
The frame is bent, but the bed is still good? Where'd it get hit?
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It took a hit to the right front wheel. Broke the knuckle where the lower ball joint bolted on. Frame is not square anymore. A few years ago it got a used knuckle and a new tie rod to be able to move it around before I got it.
 
Frame shop cant straighten it easier than swapping the frame out?
 
[486 said:
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I've got a couple of those.
The casters on them are the strangest exercise in geometry I've ever encountered.
All the angles appear correct, the wheels roll, and the swivels rotate freely.
But, every time I have weight on the fucking things, every fucking one of the fucking wheels with any amount of fucking weight on it fucking wants to fucking skid sideways.

If anything is a reason to start ww3, it's those goddamn things.
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Mine work like a champ. Ive got one under my reloading press bench so I can move it around. When its in use I just tilt the bench lift a bit and slide the dolly out. Ive got another in my storage garage under a flat tire on a utility trailer cause I havent got around to fixing the fucking thing yet and now my bridgeports in the way. And a few more under my lateral file cabinet/storage drawers so I can move them as needed.
 
i used two ratchet straps crossed overf the bed and hooked it in the center and lifted from there.
 
Stuck said:
Frame shop cant straighten it easier than swapping the frame out?
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Talked to the body shop guys at the gmc dealer I worked at back when it was first wrecked. They said a diamonded frame was almost impossible to pull back out. Frame swap is just unbolting everything and reinstalling so shouldn’t be too bad. I helped the diesel guy at the last dealer I worked at pull a couple cabs and it wasn’t bad at all
 
This is actually a question? Jack it up, set on blocks and drive out from under it or pick it up and drive out from under it. It's not that big a deal. Personally I like the helicopter idea, but a little enginuity and it will come off easy.
 
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