cab to bed alignment question
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cab to bed alignment question
I'm looking at a '72 F150 for $750,00. Enigne seems good, interior is decent for a 30 year old truck, and the body is o.k. except for one thing. The bed doesn't line up to the cab properly. If you sight down the fenders, rather than forming a straight line the trim seems to break uphill at the bed. I've seen this quite a bit on some of these older Fords, the bed never seems to line up quite right. I'm wondering if this is normal. Could the frame be bent? Is there a way to tell on the test drive, or do I need to go to a mechanic? Thanks for any advice y'all can give.
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Check all the mounting points on the cab and bed for sagging metal or the rubber bushings on the cab,if all is fine mabey could be the frame but their pretty tough you might just have to shim the bed up to match the body lines. 750 bucks is a deal I whouldn't pass it up.
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The bed of my truck is slightly misaligned from hard use by past owners. It was used a wood cutting truck, so the floor of the bed is a little beat and a little bent, but fixable. That could be another reason if not both.....750 bucks is a good deal.
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One corner is a little low on my 72 due to the dufess that installed the dual tanks cut away the reinforcing rib on that side. I still hate seeing those tanks with the little aluminum doors hacked into the side of the truck.
By the way you must mean a F-100 or 250 not F-150 since the 150 didn't come along until 76. Common mistake. And a common problem with the alignment.
By the way you must mean a F-100 or 250 not F-150 since the 150 didn't come along until 76. Common mistake. And a common problem with the alignment.
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A 75 F-150? could be but I was buying new Ford trucks back then every year or so and I seem to remember the 76 as the first 150, but I've been wrong before.
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My new bed going on my crewcab has those stupid tanks with the doors on them I'll be chopping those out and welding new body back in there and just using a 50 gallon in bed tool box fuel tank combo. They really weren't practical concidering what gas guzzlers were in these trucks. You whould have thought they whould have put the spare in the bed and a tank inbetween the frame standard!
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