Sorry to invade your fine forum.
Just it seems to be the best forum for recovery truck builds!
I have an Iveco Daily LWB panel van with a wrecked body. I'd like to cut the body behind the cab and then unbolt the body from the chassis.
I can do all this easy enough it's just a few questions on building the body.
I'd love to do it in ally but it's beyond my skill level welding ally. It's a seperate chassis van but I'll probably unfortunately have to lay down two tracks of box section for strength as they aren't the most strong chassis in the world.
I'm thinking about 18 foot body. I want it it be as big as possible as I'm potentially going to uprate to 5 tonne. I know the implications of this!
Just a few questions. Is the beavertail vital? Does it make a huge difference as I'd love to have it just a flat bed!
How wide realistically should it be?
Also, I've seen a 14 foot flat bed body on eBay. How comes nobody ever just adds a beavertail to an original flat bed and rip them off to start a fresh? Just thinking it could save a lot of time and money!
Cheers!!!