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    Default Dent removal/pic hosting?

    The bed I got from Tacoma has a significant bent/crease in the top rail. I don't have a camera other than my cell phone and only have this computer at work that I cannot use for opening any files that are e-mailed to me. I want to post a pic of this and get some advice on fixing it, but first I need a way to get the pics posted. If someone knows another way to get them on here or can host them if I e-mail them from my phone, I'd be grateful. I'd prefer advice on doing it myself, but I'm not an ace on the pc. Thanks in advance and have a great weekend. Bill

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    doug@brookermech.com

    If you want to send them, I'll try to get them posted.
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    Now this is funny, folks.....

    I just so happen to have a picture of that very bed that might help in this situation! What are the odds, huh?! See if this does it for ya, Wrecker:

    -- Tim Taylor


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    Not sure if you have tried anything yet to get it out but maybe start with a c-clampplaced in the bent spot and a come along or engine hoist hooked to it to pick up on it til you can get it out. With the weight of the truck the bed should give enough to pull it back up and you may have to pull it past being straight just a little so when it spings back it will be straight. If the weight alone doens't do it you made need to heat it a little while pulling on it to get it to give some.

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    Looks to me like the inside of the bed steel might still be straight. If it is it should be a pretty easy fix. Some heat, maybe a couple relief cuts, and some pounding and or pulling, a little cussing, some welding and grinding, maybe some bondo and well. Then Paint.

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    That's the very dent I'm referring to Tim. Awesome. Where would you suggest the relief cuts, Todd? The inside is bowed in but not creased. The problem is that it's a compound dent. bent down and in and the rear post is slightly bent as well. I'm thinking about cutting the top channel between the bed stake holes and then grafting the straight one from my old bed in its place. The old bed had most of the spot welds and several of the other weld broken by a PO trying to remove the fire dept's welded on rear step. I don't want to mess this one up with too much brute4c--LOL.

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    I can't tell for sure from the picture but probably cut down the outside right where the the two dents are and maybe accross the top. Looks like your gonna have to push it up and or maybe pull it up. You might want to remove the the paint and heat it up a bit. Of course you will have to figure out how your gonna push it up or pull it up. A stud welder for dents might work if the metal is heated really hot and pop it up with a slide hammer. Some of the metal on these trucks wont budge with a a stud and a slide hammer unless it is heated to almost red hot. That's where I'd start. As for the whole rail pushed in, I used a push ram and pushed my bed rails back straight by supporting the opposite side of the bed with a full 4x6 wood beam off of a post in the shop. Then pushed it out and let it sit over night on tension, actually pushed it a little farther than what looked straight. When I removed tension from the ram, it was almost perfectly straight. Good enough for me. Godd Luck.

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