Bed Flex

[greenbank]

Just curious if what Goldie does is normal or not. If I load up the bed of my truck with a lot of weight on one side, I get pretty good deflection in that direction. For example, the bed and cab are nicely level with each other then the bed is empty; I had a 900 lb engine/tranny combo in the bed lashed to the passenger side and the bed was down a good two inches from level, then. Is this the bed flexing? The frame? Is it normal?

There's no rust in my truck and I went underneath today to poke around and the frame looks pretty good, no cracks as far as I can tell.

I just don't want to stress something before fixing it if this doesn't sound normal to you guys. I have to haul an engine/tranny/front end/rear axle/wheels tomorrow so I can take a couple of pictures with it all loaded up.

[averagef250]

Sounds normal to me. Best to put the load in the center over the axle if possible.

[Thunderfoot]

Pretty normal,
As Dustin said, try to center your load in the bed as much as possible.

[rjewkes]

yep, the 4x4 realy flex over uneven terrain. I think the frame and bed have a certain degree of give built in to them.

[xxxtina63]

Sounds about right. Frame should twist a little to compensate for load.

[greenbank]

Thanks for the replies. Which begs the question...what happens when you do the same thing in a unibody?

[QC]

That's probably why they only made unibodies for 2 years.

[mjhaltom]

CRRRAAACCCKKKK!!!!!!

[foghorn]

That's probably why they only made unibodies for 2 years.

HMMMM i always thought it was just one year for the unibody truck but i maybe wrong



Foggy