K5 Bed floor Length/width?

[Kire]

I'm looking at a K5 that needs some rust repair, and I want to make sure I'm as prepared as possible, so I'm trying to price out replacement panels. I wouldn't be surprised if I'll have to replace the floor of the bed.

I found a whole bed floor on Motorcity K5, for $1500.

A bit spendy, but obviously restoring a truck isn't going to be cheap. But, on Tabco, they have 3 separate bed replacement panels:

I can get all three of these for around $300, plus shipping and all that. In total, they're about 66 inches long. I did a fairly crude photoshop edit where I cut out, scaled and layered these three pieces over top of the full pan, lined it up as best as I could, and all three just about covered the whole damn thing, minus the tail pan. But who knows if that's actually accurate, with the slightly different angles of the pictures.

I basically just want to know the dimensions of just the floor of the bed, to see if these three parts actually make up the entirety of the bed. If I can trade spending $1200 with having to spend time welding pieces in place, I think that's the route I'd rather go with, seeing how I'll have to weld the floor in anyway.

Thank you!

 

[eodcoduto]

Are you dead set on replacing the sheet metal? You could find a complete rust free bed for less than the panels and the fit and finish will be superior.

 

[Kire]

Are you dead set on replacing the sheet metal? You could find a complete rust free bed for less than the panels and the fit and finish will be superior.

You can just replace the whole bed on a blazer?? I mean I guess that makes sense but it sounds like a pain lol

Either way, I feel that it would be even more of a pain to find a rust free bed to drop on. I'd I'm sure have to go down to a southern state to find one, and if I'm making that trip, I might as well just get a truck from down there and call it a day, but with shipping/hailing fee's, I'd figure I'd have just as much into it after buying, shipping, body work and paint as I would just replacing rusted panels.

I'm not too worried about how the floor looks, since I'll have carpet over it. As long as its structurally sound, not rusty, and it's sealed up properly to prevent rust from coming back, I'll be happy.

 

[Chickntrk]

I’d get the whole floor if you want it to look good, patch panels suck, actually I’d look for a cleaner body to start with, rust sucks.

 

[Chickntrk]

You can just replace the whole bed on a blazer?? I mean I guess that makes sense but it sounds like a pain lol

Either way, I feel that it would be even more of a pain to find a rust free bed to drop on. I'd I'm sure have to go down to a southern state to find one, and if I'm making that trip, I might as well just get a truck from down there and call it a day, but with shipping/hailing fee's, I'd figure I'd have just as much into it after buying, shipping, body work and paint as I would just replacing rusted panels.

I'm not too worried about how the floor looks, since I'll have carpet over it. As long as its structurally sound, not rusty, and it's sealed up properly to prevent rust from coming back, I'll be happy.

You’d have to swap the whole body

 

[Kire]

I’d get the whole floor if you want it to look good, patch panels suck, actually I’d look for a cleaner body to start with, rust sucks.

That's fair. I don't even know how bad the floors are, I'm just guessing there's rust at least coming in. I'm hoping to get over to where it is relatively soon to check it out. The problem with the stuff around here, there isn't much else that's cleaner, and the stuff that is cleaner, seems to have something else majorly wrong with it

 

[Kire]

You’d have to swap the whole body

that's what I was figuring. If I end up getting the truck, maybe I'll just bite the bullet and get the full bed.

 

[eodcoduto]

Now

You can just replace the whole bed on a blazer?? I mean I guess that makes sense but it sounds like a pain lol

Either way, I feel that it would be even more of a pain to find a rust free bed to drop on. I'd I'm sure have to go down to a southern state to find one, and if I'm making that trip, I might as well just get a truck from down there and call it a day, but with shipping/hailing fee's, I'd figure I'd have just as much into it after buying, shipping, body work and paint as I would just replacing rusted panels.

I'm not too worried about how the floor looks, since I'll have carpet over it. As long as its structurally sound, not rusty, and it's sealed up properly to prevent rust from coming back, I'll be happy.

Now that I read it again, ignore everything I said. I had a pickup box in my head when I was reading your post.