While wandering around a local yard, I found an F600 (I believe). Looked like the same dentside cab and doors we use on the 73-79. However, it had a nifty dashboard setup with 3 large gauges (vacuum, tach, speedo) and 4 smaller gauges (oil fuel temp amps). Yes I know the cluster is different. Would the *entire dashboard* assembly swap into a 73-79 F100/F350?

 

I'm not 100% positive, but I don't think it's a simple bolt in. On my 76 F600, it seems to me that the whole fire wall panel matches a 67-73 as does the dash. It's like they combined parts from two era's of cabs to come up with the medium duty cabs. I can't remember exactly what is different, but the fire wall and dash structure match the 72 cab I have on my plow truck, but obviously, the rest of the cab matches the 73-79 body lines.

Like I said, I'm not 100% sure, it's been too long since I looked at it to remember for sure. What I do remember is thinking that a normal 73-79 cab would not be a direct swap for the F600, if(when) that one rusts out.

Anyone else know for sure???

 

I've interest in this topic as well...Yes, it's been posted on here before that the firewall & dash are from the 67-72. Also, the cab mounts are different, I believe, to fit the medium duty truck frames.

 

Yep, Two different cabs.

The reason behind the 1968-1972 dash in the 1973-1979 F-600 or higher, is because simply the 1973-1979 pickup dash would not fit because of firewall issues. The vfirewall of the F-600 is vastly different to a pickup.

Doors are swappable, along with hoods and windshield and back glass with the 1973-1979 pickups... Not much else.