Let me know what your looking for and maybe I can help you out.

Ron

 

I'd like to see a picture of that "6 door/8ft bed" I've often thought of taking an extended cab and adding it to a crewcab, anyone ever seen that done?

 

I've seen a couple of them done that way but haven't done it myself. makes a great looking rig.

 

The truck isn`t finished yet but working steady on it.I used two crew cabs.Lookin for rear door panels(prefer black but any color will do),couple of rear doors if price is right.If I can figure out how to post photos(new to forum , sorry)I`ll post photos of the project so far and photo I found of crew cab with extended added with 8 foot bed.Photo was on the internet somewhere.

 

I saw one on ebay once, I will see if I can dig up the pic I kept.

 

I've got a '78 f-250 crewcab stortbed with 2 fuel doors, but get this- only one tank! The rear door is inoperable' and seems to have a stud on the back of the door with a nut on it which prevents the door from opening. I have found no reason to suspect that the bed is not the original, but I can find no evidence that the truck ever had the second tank! There is a piece of angle iron rivited to the frame rails (from one side to the other) right in the middle of where the fuel tank should be. This truck (even though its a '78) has the narrow frame, like a pre-771/2. I know that the 78-79 (wide) frame held the tank between the frame rails, which would not be possible on this frame.

 

Do you still have crewcab parts to get rid of? If so, where are you located?

 

Quote: I have found no reason to suspect that the bed is not the original, but I can find no evidence that the truck ever had the second tank

Daddy04,
Check on the right side of the heater controls for a dual tank switch .

 

The switch is not there, but the dash is not the original. There is no fuel selector valve under the truck, but wasnt the rear tank the primary? Seems odd that the truck would have a mid-ship tank, and no aft axle tank. Unless there was something else back there. What kind of spare tire carrier were the highboys equiped with?

 

there was a guy close to me that had two for sale he placed an ad in the clasified section in feb or march. do not know anything about them

 

my 79 crew cab has two doors in the short bed and only one tank located under the cab. i need a fuel tank for the truck

 

How wide is your frame at the rear of the truck? A '79 should be the 37" frame but so should my '78,and its the 34" frame. Does the rear fuel door open?

 

daddy04, my '78 crew has the 37" wide rear frame, dual tanks, two fuel filler doors in the box (both work) and the fuel tank selector switch on the dash. Looks all factory to me as I have this thing totally tore down to bare frame and nothing on this truck has ever been apart. The truck was undercoated sometime in it's life (probably when new as there is undercoating on the bottom side of the firewall) and both fuel tanks have undercoating sprayed on them. I believe mine came from Canada equiped with the dual tank setup.

 

Daddy04, just another thought about your frame - are you sure it is a 78 frame???? Do the VIN numbers on the frame match the VIN on the body? Both VIN numbers stamped in my frame match the body VIN number and everything correlates to a 1978 truck. Just a thought.

 

my frame is 34in i found out when i bought a hitch for a 73-79 ford and it was too wide. i called the hitch manufacturer and told the rep that i had bought a hitch for a 79 crewcab and before i said anything else he said that it was the wrong hitch i needed one 34in . he said the 3/4 ton crew is on the 1ton frame. also my bed has 2doors on the bed with only the front used