Bed bolt upgrade?

[Scruffy49]

Would “horror of horrors” Ford T-55(?) bed carriage bolts and this style caged nut work on a Squarebody?

I need to pull the bed off my C10 to add a bolt in C notch. Trying to preplan for any factory bolts that end up spinning. The factory hardware is in overall great shape, but the bed floor shows normal farm use pitting.

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[legopnuematic]

Just cut/split the nuts for the bed bolts, then remove the factory bolts with no chance of spinning and rounding the square hole.

Clean up and reuse or replace at discretion.

 

[ali_c20]

You could spot weld the bolt heads but that makes them non serviceable. Not the best solution but it would work.

 

[75gmck25]

If you cut a notch across the head, a helper can use a large screwdriver to stop it from spinning when you remove the nut underneath. Once you get it a few turns loose you can clamp vice grips on the edge of the head and get a better grip. It will be harder to turn as the nut gets farther off, because the end bolt threads are full of dirt and muck.

 

[calredneck]

Just don't use an impact gun use a breaker bar and a cheater pipe clean exposed threads and lube no striping of holes for me just swapped 2 beds out not one striped hole a rusty 77