Has anyone attempted at doing a swap of the bed floor with one from a chevy or ford? If so, how did it go? How much modification//fabrication did you have to do?

 

They make new sheet metal bed floors. This is all that is reproduced that i know of.
https://www.summitracing.com/search/...ed-floor-patch

 

This is kinda what I was thinking of doing. I have tried looking at different places, but no one seems to make replacement floors for d/w series trucks, only chevy and some fords. i was wondering if anyone tried putting a chevy or Ford floor in their truck and if so, how did it go?

 

If you have a step side, you can swap with minor work. If you have the styleside, those fit the frames and body lines so they are quite different.

 

I believe that I have a style side. have you seen them sell 5x8 panel or something that i could use to fabricate my own floor? the previous owner decided to cut a big hole in the bed above the fuel pump to change it, and then patched it with a street sign on top of square tube stock

 

If that's the only issue just cut a section out of one in a junk yard and weld it in.

 

I've been thinking. (Now my head hurts! ) What are your plans for the truck? You evidently have the wide bed. If you aren't going to haul stuff, get some nice paneling. If you want to use the truck for work, get some more rough plywood. I've used old coal mine conveyor belt as a bed floor but that stuff is heavy. You don't even want to think of sliding anything on it. If I was going to do it to my truck, here are two ways I'd put a floor in. This is going over the old floor.

#1, Get two sheets of plywood or paneling.Depending on if you want show or work. Make a template of one side of the bed going down the middle. I'd do the right side. Then cut the opening for the inner fender inside the bed. Make a matching one for the drivers side with a notch for where the filler pipe has an indent. Put the two pieces in the bed with a metal strip down the middle to hold the wood down and dress it up.

#2 This might be easier. Put one of the two sheets down in the middle of the bed. Use the other sheet to make fill panels for in front and behind the inner fenders. Use metal strips to fill the gaps.

Use some fancy self drilling screws with chrome tops to hold everything down. Make sure you don't screw into a fuel line or anything but the frame. You can get transom strips at home improvement stores to cover the places where the sheets meet..I'd go with #2 if you're working by yourself. Smaller pieces are easier to cut as well as you can generally find old boxes to use that are big enough. The two front pieces will be different because of the indent for the filler pipe. The back pieces might be mirror images of each other.

However you o, be sure to paint or seal all the wood so it doesn't rot. If it'ss just for show, then sheets will do as well as being cheaper. If you plan to haul heavy loads like bags of concrete, engines, or what ever, go with thicker wood.

 

unfortunately the junk yajunk by me don't have any 1st gen rams, I tried looking for a different part for it and couldn't find one with one in it.

 

hmm, now you've got me thinking. this wouldnt be a bad idea. my goal is kind of a restomod. my hope was to be able to modify and weld in a ford or chevy bed floor so it look good and be functional, as I'm kinda going for both looks and function, but if I wanted to be fancy, I could try paneling too.

 

just found out that holley sells a bed mat for our trucks. if all else fails, I could do that
https://www.holley.com/products/rest...BoCIpsQAvD_BwE