Our bodywork journey started out by shaving the firewall, mirror holes on the doors, our double fuel filler doors and installing our Sir Michaels smooth tailgate panel. We then shipped the cab over to Rodz Custom Motorcars in Maple Ridge where they stripped off the old paint using Duplicolor's paint stripper and started filling in any imperfections in the body with metal glaze from SEM. We installed our new molded rear roll pan from Sir Michaels along with the Sir Michaels tailgate handle relocation kit.

Then we sprayed all of the sheet metal with PPG epoxy primer supplied to us from Lordco. Once this was all block sanded down we sprayed the truck with PPG Deltron 2000 base coat white to get our center section. We then masked off the center and sprayed the rest of the truck with PPG Deltron 2000 base coat red all of which was supplied to us by Lordco.

With the truck painted, it was time to turn to the inside of the bed. We wanted to use the truck as a shop truck so we wanted something to be durable and that could be beaten up a bit. We took our Al's Liner spray bed liner kit and used some of our PPG base coat to tint the bed liner to match the truck. Once we had sprayed the bed we started to assemble our wood bed kit. Because every bed is different, we had to start by trimming the panels that went around the wheel wheels. The wood kit is assembled by using the stainless "U" channels that are laid on the floor. Threaded inserts are slide down the channel to line up with the bolt hole locations in the stainless bed strips and stainless button head fasteners are used to hold the wood strips down to the "U" channel. This makes the entire wood kit as one piece and could be removed as one entire panel should you need to use the bed for work or some other purpose.