An Idea...homemade CCSB!!
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An Idea...homemade CCSB!!
I have been toying with this idea for quite sometime, but I'm gonna need some help on this, mostly with specs. Here is my plan...
I want to take an 81-86 F250 4wd chassis, one from a Supercab longbox. I want to pull the cab and bed, and replace the super cab with a Crew Cab (4 doors). Then, I want to replace the long bed with a short box. My questions are...
1) will the shortbox bed bolt directly onto the frame at this point. Attatchment points aren't the issue, it's the location of the box itself, meaning will the wheel wells be where they're supposed to be when I'm done?
2) has anyone does this? Essentially, I'm trying to create a Crew Cab Short Box (CCSB) using all factory stuff. But only it it's mostly bolt on. I know the cab I can make work, thats not what I'm worried about, it's the box. I don't have the resourse to "shorten" a box to make it fit the confines of the frame and location of the wheels.
3) is the wheelbase the same for current generation F250's for their supercab long boxes and their crew cab short boxes? If they are, that would suggest to me that my idea would work.
Any and all suggestions, or if anyone has done this before, please let me know....
Phil
I want to take an 81-86 F250 4wd chassis, one from a Supercab longbox. I want to pull the cab and bed, and replace the super cab with a Crew Cab (4 doors). Then, I want to replace the long bed with a short box. My questions are...
1) will the shortbox bed bolt directly onto the frame at this point. Attatchment points aren't the issue, it's the location of the box itself, meaning will the wheel wells be where they're supposed to be when I'm done?
2) has anyone does this? Essentially, I'm trying to create a Crew Cab Short Box (CCSB) using all factory stuff. But only it it's mostly bolt on. I know the cab I can make work, thats not what I'm worried about, it's the box. I don't have the resourse to "shorten" a box to make it fit the confines of the frame and location of the wheels.
3) is the wheelbase the same for current generation F250's for their supercab long boxes and their crew cab short boxes? If they are, that would suggest to me that my idea would work.
Any and all suggestions, or if anyone has done this before, please let me know....
Phil
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An Idea...homemade CCSB!!
It is going to be very difficult to put a crew cab on a frame that was made for a supercab. There is dip in the frame rails that has a different length dependent upon the length of the cab. The dip is one length for a regular cab, a little longer for the supercab, and a little longer yet for a crew cab. Unless you put the cab really high above the frame rails it will not clear them. Save yourself the headache and trade the truck for a crew cab.
