I got my 76 4X4 crew in Montana. It seems they're still around in the Pacific Northwest. Lots of em used for logging crummies or U.S.Forest Service. The logging ones are usually beat while many of the government ones are still pretty clean. Watch www.craigslist.com for the occasional bargain.

Jeff

 

Mine has factory air. I believe there are a few threads here discussing the pros and cons of adding factory air -vs- after market. I have never done either myself though.

 

Daddy04, mine where the same way. The hole size (from what I could guess from a "good" hole) is 1 5/8" dia. I'll try to post in my gallery sometime what I did. Basically cut out the bad area and welding in a new ring that was ~3" in diam that had a 1 5/8" dia inside hole. This was welded flush with the rest of the cab mount so there is no change in height of the fixed area.

 

I've seen a lot of them in the Truck Trader, but I got mine off the local Craigslist. Just be patient and you can find a bargain on a good crewcab!

 

I would love some resources. I found mine across the street and paid $1000 for it.

 

Are you still looking to rid of a couple of them? I'm looking at a 78 F-250 4x4 crewcab with some rust, any idea what its worth?

 

I would like to get a trim piece that goes between the front and rear doors on a '78 if you have a parts truck. I may be interested in a complete truck also. Email me at ccarpenter@qaltek.com if interested. Thanks.

 

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I am also looking for a Crew Cab and I found a 1974 F-250 4x4 VIN F28YCU43316 on the internet but it has what I call a line truck bed (The one with all the doors on the side). Were F-250 made in different wheelbases? I would want to replace it with a regular short truck bed, it looks like it would fit. Is there a way I could tell for sure before I buy? With all of the talk of frame sizes what year beds would fit?

 

Daddy04, check the pics in my gallery to see the before and after pics of my repaired front cabmounts. I did the rears just the same. The hole diameter is
1 5/8". Hope that helps.

 

I looked for one for about a year, drove hundreds of miles, literally....'not for sale' was what everyone told me whenever I did find one. I bought a '79, orange, 2wd logging truck just to get my hands on one.

A couple of months later I see '74? crewcab shortbox 4x4 and I followed it (stalked them) until they pulled into the local tire store. I walked up and said 'Hey, nice truck, know where I could find one?"

The passenger looked over at his brother (couple of loggers) and said to him, "Hey, you want to get rid of brownie?" Turns out they had a two-tone brown '79 4x4 sitting behind the barn in the horse pasture about 3miles from my house. Horse had kicked a dent into the passenger door, shocks were toast but everything else was near perfect. Loved that granny low gear. Picked it up for 2K and put a 460 in it. Traded it later for my current Supercab because it has auto and AC (for the wife). Wish I still had that truck.

 

I've just started reading this thread from the beginning so I can learn more about 73-78 crews. Here's where I'd like to end up when I'm done.

http://www.fordcummins.com/1974_ford.htm

 

I used the cab of a 79 that had the same bed as above, and found that this is the way they were made because the extra tank was in the cab. but my bed was no good so had to scrap it, and i uded the cab on my F150 long bed frame. I cut the bed to just about 5 foot, and welded it back together, and plan to remove the filler door al together. I am going to hide the filler neck behid the tail light.

 

here a look at it before primer.

 

I bought mine for $900 off a farmer. It was pretty banged up but no rust which is amazing for here. I live in southern BC, canada and there are lots of these things around. In the last year I've probably run accross 4 for sale. I think the loggers used them a lot.