im here too but not really cheap lol
custom ext cab?
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custom ext cab?
this may sound really dumb but has anyone attemted hacking a single cab and turning it into an extended cab? i cant find anything i really like in the newer trucks and i really dont wanna give away my 94 for $300 especially just to get a payment. so anyway has anyone else attemted this or am i the only crazy cheap mother******?
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Idk, But I've been thinking of getting a crew cab cab, and putting my extended cab on the back of that, just so I have that much more room.... It really wouldnt be too hard, just take time.. alot of spot welds to drill out..
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not the prettiest with the miss-matched hood and fender and the half-assed bodywork by the PO. trying to decide if i wanna try to take another single cab and put it together or just the extended cab section
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i was considering this but the way everything is priced aroubnd here is ridiculous first-off second i had it on craigslist with a few offers to trade until they saw pics with the fender and hood. and i really just dont want a payment on anything so why not make what i already own clean and clear into what i want? and again this isnt final im just tossing around the idea
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From what I have found, best bet would be to take the cabs apart at the rear of the door, at the seam, and the whole back of the cab would come off..
I would think you could find a complete extended cab to swap over for your app tho, alot easier than making it...
I would think you could find a complete extended cab to swap over for your app tho, alot easier than making it...
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i have thought about this too as an option, in doing this though will i need to modify the frame? correct me if im wrong but doesnt the fame rail stay lower the whole length of the ext cab then raise up behind it just like the single cab? actually now i just put my foot in my mouth because id have to modify the frame either way....
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Ugh idk if I can let u butcher such a truck! I can see taking a crappy chevy cab from the junk yard and testing first, that way if it doesn't work out, you didn't destroy a ford and no one would miss the chevy.
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thats what has me concerned i dont wanna b*tch up a perfectly good truck esp since theres only 158k on the 300 under the hood anyone got a bare ext cab they wanna sell cheap?
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Yea dude honestly butcher up a spare crap cab, I wouldn't test on the aactual one if you've never done it before. No offensse to you at all but most things like this always look flawless in your mind bur when u get down to doin it, it's a world of problems ya know
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did you do it yourself or was it done by someone else?