1950 Chevy 3100 Truck Bed Wheel Tubs And Wood Bed 

I’m trying to restore my dad’s truck and your videos have been extremely helpful. Thank you so much sir!

A true modern day craftsman ! I'm sure your making your customers very happy. I like your style. Your an inspiration for my 56' chevy 3100 build currently going on. Danny, Clovis, CA

Cardboard trick is very clever

Please do more vids! This definitely helped me understand how to put my bed together. When I got my truck it was all missing, so this helps a lot!

Thanks for the information. I would prefer it to be a little shorter, but you provided all the important information.

Thank you for the real detail. Going to have to watch this a couple of times.

NIce truck!!! 1st video I've found with the bed installation...Thanks!!! Keep it up...

I love those tubs and the wood. Great job gil

Best bed build video I’ve seen yet. Keep them coming. Thanks!!

Love the video man. I learned a lot. My dad has a 55 1st series and we might have to mini tub his after he gets the new roadstershop chassis. Thanks for the good info

I really like your work brother

Turned out great , them tubs are the ticket , I used a s10 rearend and have the same issue . I may steal your idea.

Great work on the truck.

Excellent video and just in time for me! It confirmed a lot of what I’ve had to figure out in the last week of working on my bed. I bought the truck with only the original sides, a new front bolted on, and a new rear sill. That’s it! No fenders, no tailgate, plywood bed, homemade front and mid mounts, no center sills or front sill and a botched repair at the bottom of one rear stake pocket that I had to cut out and repair.. Feels like I have LMC on speed dial! Anyways, I’m finally to the point of cutting in my tubs and they were 4 1/4” wide supposedly made for this truck but they sit too tall and I already noticed interference of running into the stainless strip. With there only being around 2 1/4” from the bed to the rear part of the frame anyways I already marked mine to 2 1/2” wide and was just about to cut. Unfortunately the rolled flange is about 3” too low. So low I had to cut about 12” out of the middle to follow the hump of the frame staying around a 1/4” above it and I was going to add back in the 3/4” flange I cut off to add rigidity back to the tub but now now I’m thinking about just cutting off the entire bottom 3” and adding the flange back at the proper height to set the planks on like yours. The plank should still be close to 2” wide at the tub but I’d love for it to be sitting on something. More work but best to do it now. I also made the mistake of buying polished stainless angle strips and not buying angle strip “covers” so I had to scribe the top of the old mostly rotted away ones to locate the new ones and remove them. I’m probably going to bolt the new ones on with small stainless hardware as I obviously don’t want to weld onto them. I got scared they sent the wrong angle strips as they are too short by an 1 1/2” or so. Then your video confirmed they do stop short of the front like I figured. Thanks for that! Too bad it’s going to look silly or appear to be a botched install when not the same length as the polished strips. The only thing that is different on mine is it being the later 53 with 8 boards and I’m adding the optional wear strip for the rear, plus with the wood blocks and rubber pads on back order I’m using thick rubber washers and 2” x 2” square stock with a hole drilled through it. I’m also trying to find a clear coat that will add huge depth of glass like looks to the oak. Any recommendations? I know I can’t get it into the grooves as then the strips won’t fit properly so that part will just be regular stuff like you used. I would rather not cover the strips in anything but I’m not 100% opposed to it either. After watching videos on poured epoxy kitchen counter tops (some with built in LED lighting!) I’m wondering how that would look? You obviously know the cost involved in these beds and I don’t want a huge oops on my shoulders but man I’d love to see that super deep look and LEDS sounds intriguing. Thanks again!!

This was an absolutely wonderful video! You explained and answered many questions I had concerning placement of bolts etc. Loved it!!!

thank you kind sir you have made a fine video

Great job

Oh yeah, also SUBSCRIBED!! 👍🏻

Thank you.

Nice work! Very clean install!

Well I should have looked in the Description first. Lol

Excellent video, going to do some thing very similar with a 1970 c-10 stepside...... Thank You for sharing very helpful

Great work Gill, really amazing.👀

Good video well done explaining on what you’ve done and why. Good plan, good job. I really like your truck. I’m starting on my 1981 square body step-side. And trying to put the widest rear tires without having to narrow the reared. Again great job.

Nice 👍

nice truck 👍

nice truck..nice work.. I'm impressed with your craftsmanship.

Mr Gil that was a video learned alot.mad skills why didn't weld all of the fenders. Be Safe

Great video. Starting on mine and this help me understand how it goes. I wished you live in florida I could use your help. What inter fenders did you use and were did you buy them. Thanks for the help.

You are a master in your craft! Where are you located?

How did you keep your bedsides from warping when welding in the tubs? I had to remove my bed rail and reweld it on and now I have a warp.

Real men don't wear gloves...this is a pretty sweet build man..nice

question, did you fill the small gap between the tubs and the wood with anything?

do you show putting the running boards on