Those of you that know me know too well that I can never leave well enough alone. So instead of a simple notch job I decided to just rip off the back half and start from scratch. It took two good friends and myself many ounces of adult fluid and a few long weekends filled with welding cutting and grinding to build the new rear section. They left me to do the pretty finish work but that’s ok, After all it is my truck. We hand built all that you see and I got it to a good looking finish point but was very unhappy with the pan-hard bar. It pulls too far left to right with raising and lowering the truck. With keeping a factory fuel tank in its location it’s already a tight fit using a 4-link setup outside the rails and the left to right effect is just too close for comfort. So I have since cut off the pan-hard bar (not in the photos) and will play trial and error utilizing a modified watts link over the differential. A traditional watts link would hide and take away from my purty billet Diff cover and I can’t have that. I ran a tub channel all the way across my bed so I have plenty of room without interference. So just stay tuned to see how this finishes out.