My truck has a manual "armstrong" bed lift kit installed. It does use
two really long hydraulic struts to help lift and to hold it up but it
still takes a lot of muscle to get it moving. However I'd never consider
doing a pickup conversion without some kind of lift installed. Nor would
I put the batteries in the bed.
--Rick
On 5/26/2016 4:44 PM, Mike Beem via EV wrote:
We did that with the 1 that I did; since it was going to be a small farm
utility vehicle we made an (over-complicated) hydraulic lift for the bed &
mounted the batteries down along the inside of the frame on both sides. The
subsequent 2 owners I knew of did use that function for a lightweight dump
truck, but mostly, it made checking & servicing all of those golf cart
batteries much easier. I saw it done on another one without the hydraulics,
but it took more muscle power than most people could do by themselves. It
is SO worth the work & expense though to, 1) reclaim the usable bed space,
&, 2) lower the center of gravity (made it handle much better).
Michael B
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