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After spending a couple of hours in the shop messing around with my truck I thought, "how hard is it to take a truck bed off?" Well to my surprise, when kept out of salted roads, very easy. Well getting the bolts out was easy. After all I have never worked with something this large before and after getting the bolts out I slowly lifted the bed off with a floor jack. Bad Idea, turns out the bed is pretty soft and bends easy. After hours of trial and error I finally got the bed off, when all I really had to do was hook two chains, or ropes to the four corners of the bed to make an X and lift it out with a come along. Well after that I decided I would make a flatbed, what for? Who the hell knows, I just felt like doing something rather than waste gas doing doughnuts, burnouts and 2x4'n. So as a temporary deal, I have the flatbed made out of a piece of plywood I had laying around, and screwed the lights into the bumper, but will improve it with a metal frame (maybe) and 2x6's (defiantly).

SO HERE IS MY QUESTION,
What should I do with the bed? Keep it turn it into a trailer, get $150 from the Pick n' Pull or just sell it to someone?

P.S. I had just gotten done 2x4'n and I didn't feel like washing it in 35°F weather. Sorry about the f-ing huge pictures

Huge pictures. Haha. Well, I would hang onto it. I dont really like the looks of trucks made into flatbeds but usually they are made that way for a reason. I'd keep it for the option to revert back. IMO.

Yeah, I took it for a drive today and every time I took off from a stop sign I squealed the tires, which is cool, but real dangerous

Cause there is no weight on the rear tires. Lol. It'll be different if and when you make the box for the flatbed.

Well, I just ditched the Idea for 3 reasons:
1. You cant haul anything in a flatbed, it has to be on the flatbed.
2. People fall off real easy when 2x4'n.
3. Zero traction, unless you got for a frame for it.