mayjor bed rust need advice

[austin]

hey guys I have started work on my 69 highboy first thing to attend to is the bed its pretty much junk other than the lower quarters I have another bed with really bent up quarters but it is of a 70-72 truck so it has the marker lights on the side I would like to do away with them

the current bed








the donor bed







so what I would like to do is swap the quarters of my current bed onto the donor bed (I can live with out the tool box) but Im not a very good autobody man yet so I do not want to weld on the outside of the bed if I can help it so what I would like to do is take the whole rear bed post out of both beds and swap them as well. how easily can this be done?

I have seen tylerb43 post about swaping the lowers but id prefer to change the bed post as well

[67mann]

As long as you like drilling out spot welds....which you will anyways to get your lower skins off. Here is my thread on changing the bed post... http://www.fordification.com/forum/view ... hp?t=32017

[austin]

thanks buddy it looks like a good idea to take the post off then I could por 15 all the rust inside I want to build a truck that will out live me something I could pass on to later generations