bed hoist/jack

Oliver Closehauf · Jul 20, 2022

Has anyone who doesn't have a body shop or a barn with a hoist pulled the bed? If so what did you use to raise the bed and get the truck out from under it?
I was thinking about building some kind of gantry out of 4x4's, but maybe that's over kill.

Green_Manalishi · Jul 20, 2022

+3 friends and a case of beer got the bed off my '96. Just muscled it off.

Oliver Closehauf · Jul 20, 2022

I don't have any friends. I have to rely on skill and ingenuity. Kinda screwed all the way around.

bigdodge · Jul 20, 2022

You could hang ratchet straps from the ceiling

chopperman1 · Jul 20, 2022

Done it before with ratchet straps to the 4 corner tie down eyes. Do the rear ones from an angle, ie use joist 2 or 3 behind the truck, it helps pull the bed away from the body. Real easy actually.

Oliver Closehauf · Jul 21, 2022

Hanging from?

My garage has a 100 year old pyramid roof and 7 foot high doors. The truck won't fit in there and if it did I wouldn't be able hang anything. It doesn't have rafters.

What about unbolting, then jacking the back end up high enough to slide an 8ft 4x4 through the wheel well and supporting it on saw horses and the same at the front?

Just has to be high enough to clear the tires right?

GTyankee · Jul 21, 2022

What are you doing ?

Fuel Pump ?

There are Youtube Videos of a guy that does it by himself using jacks & blocks of wood

Oliver Closehauf · Jul 21, 2022

Planning for a bed change/sheet metal repair. It's got some serious holes in the bed that would be cheaper to just swap on a replacement.

Obviously I'll have a week of refinishing on the frame, getting rid of a 5th mount that's rotting.

Can't see any of it unless you get under it. I gave it "chemotherapy" when I bought it, this just the next phase of Christine-ing it back to like new condition.

Get a new bed, take the one I have off, do the frame, then take it to a body shop to have cab corners and rockers done while the bed is off. Treat the underside and rust prone areas on the replacements bed while it's at the body shop and then put the replacement bed on and take it back for paint. Unless I can get the bed in the same color.

Kart20 · Jul 21, 2022

I bolted a boat trailer winch to a hardwood 4X4 and laid that 4x4 across a couple of rafters. then I used straps to connect the corner hooks of the bed to the boat trailer winch cable. Then I climbed up in the bed and cranked the boat trailer winch to lift the bed, with myself in it, up off the frame. Once up, I hand-over-handed it along the rafters to a 8' step ladder nearby.

If you don't have garage rafters, maybe there's a big oak tree with a solid branch you could connect a block and tackle to.

Oliver Closehauf · Jul 21, 2022

unfortunately no, I have to manufacture whatever I use. I've thought about two gantries made out of 4x4s and 2x4s, renting 4 sections of scaffolding and using that and 2x4s, 2 on each side held apart by the 2x4s at the top and connect ratchet straps to the scaffold. Just don't want to over think or engineer when there is some "obvious" choice I've missed.

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