I think next week my Winter Storage barn returns to workshop status! I will be starting back up on my project.
Unrelated, I have an 03 Ranger with a rotted bed. There is rot around the wheel wells and the bed floor. If there wasn't a bed liner in it, it wouldn't hold any cargo. Today I just bought a Mazda bed from a guy that gets them from NC. Rust free and the same color. The body lines are slightly different, but it will bolt on. I will clean up the underside, epoxy, enamel, then coat with fibrated roofing tar. That will get me a few more years out of the truck. While the old bed is off, I'll clean up and seal the frame with POR 15 or similar. The left side wheel well is way worse than the right side in the pic.