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Bedside panel replacement

volaredon

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My truck 85 D150. 8 ft bed.
I have some full cutoff replacement bedsides from (I think) a 1988. Whoever cut them off I don't know why they did instead of selling the bed whole/
But for whatever reason they cut the front wall of the bed and the whole length of the bed floor just inside of the wheel wells. So I get to drill out all the spot welds from 2 sets of bed sides and reweld the good ones back to the rest of my original bed.
What I want to know, is there any kind of universal spot weld pattern that would apply to all the beds of that series?
I'm hoping I can drill out the spot welds on both and lay the new bedsides right back on, and have the spot weld holes line up so I can just drop some Cleco type fasteners in holes that line up, and take them out as I re-weld it all back together.
 
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