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How Strong Are The Step Side Bed Rails


Tbmitchell

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i have a 99 ranger with the fiber glass step side bed and im wanting to mount my welder/gen in the bed but ill half to mount it onto of the bed rails and it weight around 800lbs and im woundering if ill half to run some angel iron down to the bed floor to support weight or do you thing the bed rail will hold it anyone have any experience with this? thanks
 


brinker88

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Lol. Yes, that is WAY too much weight for fiberglass panels...
 

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800 lb in the bed of mine the back end is sitting in the ground

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