i have 5 pickups 3 with usable frames 2 whith good bodies 1 a f100 step side short bed 4x4 another a f350 flat bed the other 3 are usable parts and items and 4 wheel drive is a must what should i do a shrt bed 4x4 step side or a flat bed dullie 4x4 opinions would be apreciated

 

For starters, I would think you need to figure what type of bed you need. You have a flat bed and a short bed, two totally different looks and function. Will this be a work truck or something to tool around town in?

 

I love short beds - but a short 4X4 rides rougher than a corn cob. Time you get springs enough to hold the 4 wd down it bounces like you will not beleve. In addition, the short wheelbase gets real choppy at speed, and unstable. I would think long and hard before I built a short 4X4.

I would build the shorty as a light duty runabout, and the flatbed dually as a stout 4X4 workhorse. Use the shorty like a car, and the dually as a heavy truck when you need one.

I bet you wind up driving 10 miles in the shorty for every one mile in the dually.

 

well i live out in the boone dox and im a mechanic so i want a truck i could work whith(dont know how much i need the flatbed for work but) but i can take out and go 4 whelling i dont need a show truck but i love my pickups so much i belive im going to try to drive it everyday i can forever (well see how that goes) the reason i like the stepside shorty is the nostalgia of it it would be a bueaty the flat bed would give a diffrent sort of nostalgia more like a truck the made america i dont know but ive decied to decied by the end of the week

 

Can't say I've ever seen a flatbed go 4-wheelin'.....but I would think that being a mechanic, a flatbed might come in handy for haulin' engines and body parts. But if you want a truck to play with, it sounds as though the shortbed will win out... Fox

 

What years are they, that would help in making up your minds

 

1960 bolth

 

I'd have to agree w/ W.B. about everything he's stated.
A 4x4 Shorty @ speed & 4 wheelin' is so unstable you'd have to keep a change of shorts in your truck.