Hi all, greetings from sunny Queensland! (Australia) . I am still trying to chase up a decent 74-79 supercab cab and interior from around the California area to import to Oz, but I have a question..... Does the supercab cab fit onto the same 2wd chassis that I have here (76 long wheelbase)? Or do the mounts need to be moved on the chassis? Any info (or pics, as i have never seen one in the flesh) at all is greatly appreciated. Long live the F-Truck!!!!

 

The rear cab mounts are in different locations.

 

Does anyone have any pics or specs on where I will have to reposition my rear mounts to?

 

I had the same question a while back you can get good pics in the galleries of people who are doing restorations and etc.

 

Ok mate, thank you! Sorry about my naivety, but i am a new internet user, and supercabs are never seen over here..... Are you able to point me in the direction of someone who may have a cab and rear crossmember that they might sell in the California area?

 

Sorry pal, Im in Ohio. I may be looking for a line on Cali/desert parts myself soon, but right I don't have anybody.

 

There's plenty of old F series trucks for sale up here in BC (the western part of another former brit colony) including supercabs. Most of them are pretty rusty... I wonder how much you'll have to pay to import the cab or whole truck 'down under'.

 

hey there, i have done this. i put a supercab on a std cab frame. i will try to get some pics and send them to you.

 

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as you can see in the top pic i had to add a one inch lift to the front of the cab, but i was able to reuse the stock mounts in the front.just by using a longer bolt.
the problem that you will incounter is that the frame on a std cab rises right after the the cab. making the body sit nose down on the frame. so i cut some excess metal off of the bottom of the cab and put it as low as possible to the rear frame rails. approx 3/8 of an inch. then went to the junk yard and picked up some body mounts off of a super cab frame. because the stock std cab bolts to a cross member on the inside of the frame. the new super cab body mounts to the outside of the frame. with a little mod i made some new rear mounts as you can see in the bottom pic. the thing that i dont know i how the stock bed and stock core support will align? on my truck i changed the front clip to a 96 f150 body style, so i have a compleatly diffrent core support, and the bed is just the skins of a stock bed(i threw the bed away) this whole process was alot of work, but it paid off. because i have a 73 super cab that ford didnt even offer.
i hoped this helped
justin


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Mate that is awesome! Thanks for the tips! How did you line up the steering shaft after you had lifted the cab? I don't know about the steering columns that you have in US, but here we have a solid (though collapsible, non-tilt) column, with a flexible coupling at the steering box end. If you lift the cab straight up, this coupling doesn't line up, and if you tilt the column, there seems to be a lot of load placed on the flexible coupling. Any pics of the finished product? Thanks for your help!

 

i did have to do a slight mod on the steering shaft, just change the angle a little bit. the top mount stayed the same but i moved the bottom mount down.(the rag joint takes up the diff.) i will get you some pics of that in the next couple of days.