This truck was accually built for my uncle's construction business. This was alot easier conversion than my truck (a m35a2c dump with original bed) because it had a subframe that the hoist and the hinge was already made in to. The bed was basicly just set on there, welded some angles to the subframe that lined up with the original bed attachment points on the truck frame, and bolted it down.
I will say a t-case pto pump (what my truck has) is easier and a cleaner setup than a front mounted trans pto pump. My uncle had used my truck and didn't like all the steps required to run the pump with the t-case pto (shift t-case to netural, shift the main trans in gear, and shift the pto lever) becuase of the hired help that would be driving them. All the trans pto requires is to shift one lever and let the clutch out. The only reason I say that the front mounted pump is not as "clean of setup" as the t-case pto pump is because of the extra hose required to run from the pump to the bed and trying to tie it up out of the way.
The reason I went with the civilain bed was because he sees this truck as a work truck and isn't concerned about keeping the military look (although I'd submit it looks an awful lot like a military deuce dump), he already had the bed on an old junk truck, and this bed is alot tougher than the standard cargo bed. He also gave me the old dropside bed that came off the truck.
More pics to come.
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