True! I had one for awhile



Another crazy project idea but no title and needed major amounts of work to resurrect.

 

Actually all of our responses have been wrong and this thread is moot. Blasphomey you say. A dually truck has 6 tires including the front axle and as such the real question should be " did Ford ever make a 4 x 6 dentside using a dually rear axle in a 1 ton format". Hah ha. I think I may be suffering from Montannaitis.

 

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What.... these were built, not a special order truck, well dang.

 

actually even that would be wrong, you mean 6X6

 

Four wheel drive refers to the number of drive axles. You need another axle for 6x6.

 

6 wheels on the ground 6 wheels driven




What does 4x4 stand for?

Is 4WD the same thing as 4x4?
That question comes up about once a month - so, I had to include the answer here on my site.


4x4 (four by four)
translates to a vehicle with 4 wheels powered by 4 wheels -
so, its a 4WD or AWD (four wheel drive or all wheel drive)

4x2 (four by two)
translates to a vehicle with 4 wheels powered by 2 wheels -
so, its a 2WD (two wheel drive)

6x6 (six by six)
translates to a vehicle with 6 wheels powered by 6 wheels -
so, its a 6WD (six wheel drive)

8x8 (eight by eight)
translates to a vehicle with 8 wheels powered by 8 wheels -
wow, its a 8WD (eight wheel drive)


Even though 4WD and 4x4 are commonly used to indicate the same thing, a 4WD is not necessarily a 4x4. Because a 3 axle truck with six wheels can be a 4WD as well (both rear axles are powered) - you would have refer to it as a 6x4 (six by for - six wheel vehicle powered by four wheels).
Actually very early 4WD vehicles used that configuration quite often.

Also, what are the differences between four wheel drive (4WD), all wheel drive (AWD), part time 4WD, full time 4WD - and even automatic 4WD?

 

That would be a Marmon-Harrington aftermarket 4x4 system. No F600 came strait from the factory as a 4x4.

 

Can you provide proof please?

 

I am so damned confused! Did Ford make a dentside dually with 4x4 (6x6) what ever??

 

There were no factory dual rear wheel 4x4 light trucks from Ford in the 70s. That is a 100% certainty. There were conversions, but none from a Ford factory.

 

WOW! the wife wondered why I nearly dropped the laptop!

 

Google Marmon-Herrington and then you can educate yourself.

 

Well as anyone who has read this thread already knows, the truck was definitely not a factory built truck. The truck is supposedly a 1977 F350 Supercab long bed with dually flares in the back and a Dana 44 HD up front. Engine is a 400 with a granny 4 spd. I DID NOT GO LOOK AT THE TRUCK, my buddy went alone. The current owner has had the truck for 17 years and swears it is all original. Then he said the motor may have been swapped before he got it. His story and the Dana 44 was a red flag for me.

 

No.
It's in my 1978 and 1979 ford truck shop manuals. Factory with Rockwells front and rear.

1978 truck shop manual. Volume 1 chassis. It's in part 14-22 front suspension.

Also, there is a sales brochure entitled bronco's big brother: f600 4x4.

You go educate yourself, all these trucks use Rockwell units not MH axles. Those were installed on the bigger trucks.

Ford used a Rockwell t-223-c1 transfer case and an f106 front axle.