L
ast month we brought you
part I of the All Pro Off Road flat bed conversion, where we stripped Danny Pitt's Toyota mini-truck down to the frame, in order to build the frame and core structure of the All Pro Offroad flat Bed Kit. As reported, we spent several days cutting, measuring, torching, welding, measuring, notching, grinding and of course, measuring.
We left off with a maze of DOM tubing that resembled a jungle gym, which made up the foundation of our conversion. With the all of the tube work complete, it is now time to add the floor, sides and a few other components to finish up this project.
Building The Wing Floors
The All Pro Flat Bed kit doesn't come with any flooring, so you're on your own to fab the bed floor, bed-sides and wing floors.
We made cardboard templates for each side so that we could get the shapes perfect. You'll have the option of flush mounting
your wing floors, or setting it on top. We chose the latter for simplicity and strength.
With the templates finished, we transferred the shape to some flat, diamond-plate steel that we purchased at our local steel
shop. We then broke out our trusty plasma cutter (you can use a torch) and carefully cut out the shapes. With the floors cut
out, we carefully smoothed out the edges with a right-angle grinder. We then set the diamond plate wing floors onto the flat-bed wings and stitch welded them into place.
| Building The Wing Floors |
| Time: |
2.5 Hours |
| Tools Needed: |
right angle grinder(s), soap pencil, plasma cutter, welder, diamond plate / flat plate steel |
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Tracing the cardboard templates to the diamond plate steel |
Using the plasma cutter to cut out the shape of the wing floors |
Smoothing out the edges of the wing floors before we welded them into place |
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