Highboy vplow capability?
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Highboy vplow capability?
Hey guys and gals, I have a 77 f250 "highboy", and I just bought a western vplow that weighs just shy of 1000 pounds. Right now the truck has 37 inch tires on it.
I'm just curious if any of you out there have installed a similar plow on one of these, did you do any suspension mods, and how did the truck actually do with the plow?
I have mounts but they came off of modern 2500 Chevy, so I will have to do some fabrication to get them installed, but was also curious if anyone would happen to have any pictures of their plow mounts bolted on to the frame.
With the narrow highboy frame im assuming it would be a tad different than other trucks.
Anyways any feedback to my questions would be appreciated, thanks!
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I've always wanted to do a V-plow on my '79 250 and looked into it a couple times. Easiest way I see to do it is to find an old Fischer/Meyers plow mount for your year truck and a frame mount off an OBS or 99-04 SD for whatever plow you want and graft them together to get the correct plow height/angle. Where they're both based around leaf sprung solid front axles, they should be easier to adapt. On the 77.5-79's the widths are pretty much the same so cutting and grafting them together is pretty straight forward. With the HB width, I'd just use some heavy wall tubing to make up the difference. If you wanted to get crazy you could section and narrow the plow mount and A frame to match the highboy frame width. IDK if a full width plow frame will interfere with turning on a HB? Especially with 37's. I rubbed the bolt heads on my plow frame plates on a 79 f250 with the plow package springs and 36 swampers.
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