1980 Datsun Flatbed Project

[nathan_454]

 

[nathan_454]

Awesome project, I love it. Where did you learn to weld?

Self Taught. Though I have worked around some great fabricators and have picked up some tricks and techniques here and there.

 

[jhn9840]

Looks mighty sweet. You do some good work. Thanks for all the updates.

jhn9840
John

 

[HOTFR8]

Looks great. Sorry I have to say the reflectors look like an after thaught. Could you find something better than those screw in reflectors ?

 

[Jawn]

Looks great and it gives me some ideas (the bed on my '84 is in pretty rough shape).

 

[IDASHO]

Now you need to tear it off again, to repaint the chassis

 

[nathan_454]

Looks great. Sorry I have to say the reflectors look like an after thaught. Could you find something better than those screw in reflectors ?

those were on there to begin with, and I was going to weld up the holes, but forgot too before I sent it off for powdercoat. so I put them back on, I may take them back off ( I don't particularly care for them either)

 

[nathan_454]

Now you need to tear it off again, to repaint the chassis

I hope to repaint the truck and chassis before summer is over.

decided on "miller welder blue" as the color for the body.

 

[HOTFR8]

those were on there to begin with, and I was going to weld up the holes, but forgot too before I sent it off for powdercoat. so I put them back on, I may take them back off ( I don't particularly care for them either)

I am sure you will find something better and cover the holes at the same time . I like the color choice.

 

[nathan_454]

Yeah I sourced the light boxes off of a semi truck that we scrapped at my work, so I Wasn't going to gripe with their layout as they were free. I suppose I could just remove them and fill the holes with some of the extra stainless socket head bolts that i used to hold everything else together on the bed, they would be fairly nu-obtrusive.

 

[HOTFR8]

I suppose I could just remove them and fill the holes with some of the extra stainless socket head bolts that i used to hold everything else together on the bed, they would be fairly nu-obtrusive.

That would work. But do the lights have inbuilt reflectors ? Otherwise you still have to find some reflectors.

 

[IDASHO]

LED truck lights generally do not have reflectors built in.

 

[nkachur]

That is a really nice job on the flat bed. I have a 211 as well and it is a great machine
The 110 Volt will work in a pinch but the machine really perfers 220 v.

Congrats on a job well done.

 

[Alamedasam]

That is one great looking bed!

 

[bobbar]

It looks bad ***. Awesome work and great skill!

 

[Jason280]

Great job, it turned out perfect!

I really want to make one of these for a small truck, but haven't found a donor vehicle for the project. Any guesses on how much weight the new bed added?