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Posted: Sat Jan 27th, 2018 11:47 am

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When I pulled my bed all of the bolts were rusty. I took them over to my wirbrush wheel and knocked all of the surface rust off. I covered the threads and hit the tops of the bolts with some cold galvanize. I have a silver truck so it matched somewhat.

I ran a well lubed 12m x 1.75 tap through each of the mounting holes, cleaned them with brake cleaner, and smeared the first couple of threads with anti-sieze. When the bed was dropped back on the bolts all screwed in by hand and then I step torqued them to 40 ft/lb, then 55 ft/lb, and finally at 69 ft/lb.

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Tony
NE ATL
'04 XLT regular cab 3.slo stepside
Semi retirement