Thread: wood floor for PU -measurements

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I have done this, when building the bed on my roadster pickup. The secret here is that you have to buy the stainless bed strips first, and measure them. Different aftermarket manufacturers sell different widths of strips. I bought mine from Brookville, and they are really nice. You can buy them with prepunched square holes for carriage bolts, or plain. The actual sawcut is the width of a standard tablesaw blade, (about 0.100" to 0.125") and roughly the same depth. The variable is how far in to make the cut from the edge of the board. (the boards should be set up to have 1/32" to 1/16" gap between them, because if you make the bed from dried oak, it will suck up a bit of ambient moisture from the air after its installed, and if you don't leave the gap, the bed will buckle from expansion of the boards.---Brian