Bed liner?

[hotrod ford]

Will a bed liner from a 80's - earl 90's swb fit in out trucks?

[hotrod ford]

Anyone know?

[FORDification]

No I don't know for sure. However...

Several weeks ago I wanted to get a bedliner for my LWB (long wheelbase) dentside. Found a nice Pendaliner in the local U-Pull-It in an '86 and pulled it out, then dragged it over to a dentside that was a few rows away to trial fit it to the bed. It was a perfect fit. It snapped right in like it was made for it, and is now on my truck. I've since discovered that the bedliners up through '96 will fit my dentside.

There is only about a 1" difference in length between a bumpside LWB and dentside LWB and the width is the same....so a LWB bedliner up through '96 should fit our LWB bumps just fine. However, I'm not sure what the difference in length between a SWB bumpside vs. a later bed is. I'm willing to bet that they're also close enough to work.

[fireguywtc]

What about the inner wheel wells? The dent wheel wells seem smaller and more rounded like the modern trucks. The bedliner may not fit over the bumps big square wheel wells.

[FORDification]

Hmmm...good point, I hadn't even considered that. I was just thinking of the bed dimensions. Yeah, you're probably right...the wheelwells on the bumpsides ARE larger. The next time I'm at the junkyard I'll make a point to actually try fitting an early-80s bedliner into a bumpside to check for fitment.

[fordman]

my 71 4wd had a ford factory bed liner in it when i got the truck. they had cut the wheel well out of the bed liner so it would fit in the 71 's bed.