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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 07:45 PM
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So i live in kansas and i can not seem to find a bed for my dent would a 01 dually bed look good with my 78 cab. if you should know kansas folks love their flatbeds need suggestions on a bed
 
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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 08:49 PM
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So i live in kansas and i can not seem to find a bed for my dent would a 01 dually bed look good with my 78 cab. if you should know kansas folks love their flatbeds need suggestions on a bed
Probably not.. the body lines are all different.

Why not take an 80s or 90s dually bed and graft the "dent" contour into the bed side? Terminate the dent on the leading and trailing ends short of the dually fender on each side. Do a really good job and you'll have everybody scratching their heads...
 
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that is a awesome idea
 
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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 09:32 PM
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that is a awesome idea
Do it.....
 
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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 09:38 PM
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the search is on
 
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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 10:12 PM
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it can be done and done nice or fun and interesting imagine this pic if it had chrome stacks ahead of the dually fenders.... I had always wanted to try and take a short and narrow bed and widen it into a dually like they did with the ranger in the address below

Billy Diesel 7.3L Ford Ranger Dually Diesel
 
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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 10:26 PM
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Flat bed's are a thing of beauty, IMO. Any bed from a 1980 or up looks just wrong on a dent side truck.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 10:48 PM
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it can be done and done nice or fun and interesting imagine this pic if it had chrome stacks ahead of the dually fenders.... I had always wanted to try and take a short and narrow bed and widen it into a dually like they did with the ranger in the address below

Billy Diesel 7.3L Ford Ranger Dually Diesel
I plan on putting stacks on mine
 
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Stacks are cool....when they are connected to headers
 
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Old Jul 14, 2014 | 04:52 AM
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They sound like crap though, particularly on the anemic 351/400 blat blat blat, put em on a big cammed FE and it's another story.
 
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I don't know, the stacks on Ka'Bluey sound pretty good to me. They go through glass packs first, then up through the stacks.



Here's a little known fact about the Ford beds. Ford used the same bed from 1973-1996. They just hung different quarter panels on them. Get a nice solid bed from 1980-1996 and weld on new dentside quarters. Viola! You have a brand new dentside bed.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2014 | 10:34 AM
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mine is going to be diesel with big rig stacks
 
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I'd stay away from the "common diesel stacks" approach.

Think out of the box and dare to be different.

Like MTHB..
 
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Old Jul 14, 2014 | 08:00 PM
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Some companies making really nice aluminum flatbeds nowadays. Custom built to order. About anything you can dream up they will put on it there.
 
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