Oddball truck?
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I picked up a 1977 F-250 custom 2X4 recently and am perplexed by this creature. From everything I've found out so far, Ford never made a F-250 dually, but I have one sitting in my driveway. I have a request in to Ford for the build sheet, but I'm too impatient to wait the 2-4 weeks for it to get here. Can anyone tell me if this is some person's personal modification of this truck? The bed has been replaced with a pressure treated 2X6 lumber bed, so no clue there. The VIN is F25HC030523.
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Sounds like someone swapped the rear end and bed, sort of a do-it-yourself 1-ton. Not real common but I've seen a few such critters around the little farm towns out west. Kinda like 1-tons with tandem rears--well, actually, tag axles, haven't seen any with both rears driven.
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Oddball truck
I thought I had an oddball the more I pondered this truck. I don't know much about the history of it. I know it came from West Virginia to Ohio via a friends father. They have no idea where he got it. How hard is it to do this conversion? Do you have to swap the axle, or are the hubs and lug bolts on the rear of the F-250 long enough that they will accomodate the dually wheels? Is there some identifier on the axle that will match the VIN to tell me if the axle was swapped out, and what would you do, get an axle from a F-350 and bolt it in? Would it be easy for me to convert this back to the factory single rear wheel set up, I don't need a dually, nor do I need the loss in fuel enconomy driving two extra wheels.
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I like having four tires to replace instead of six, and like you I don't need duals for either weight or stability. But I really doubt you're going to notice any difference in gas mileage from having them, or not.
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I guess I need to crawl under the truck and clean up the axle and see if it is the original D60 or not. As for MPG I would tend to think I would get some improvement with the decrease in weight and not having to turn two extra tires and the drag associated with them. I suppose if you wanted to get into aerodynamics the two extra tires and the extra bed width don't help. The other thing I don't like about the extra two tires back there is the added width. Parking spaces are getting smaller, at least it seems that way to me, and I don't need the DRW for any reason. Hey, at least making the bed fit once the dual wheels come off will be easy, a one tool job, SAWZALL!
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I actually saw a truck that said it was an F150 that had 8 lug wheels, and dual rears and before anyone flames me for that I know it wasn't made by ford but the truck had been wrecked, adn someone had swapped front clips off a F150 without changing the emblems so maybe look for something like that too.
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In response to Kahuna, yes it does. I haven't had a chance to check the rear axle, and with the weather they're forecasting for central Ohio, doesn't look like I'll be able to this weekend either. In response to Monsterbaby, the GVRW of the truck is 7700 with a front GARW of 2900 lbs. and a rear GARW of 5300 lbs. Those sound like F-250 ratings, but hey, I've been wrong before.
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