Cab, bed, parts weights?
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Cab, bed, parts weights?
Anyone had occasion to weigh body parts? I'll be doing some serious swapping soon, but am limited to short-term use of a standard one-car garage and long-term use of a gravel driveway. I'm already dreading the engine/trans/tcase moves, but that can always be solved with a truck bed-mounted crane. Body parts are another story.
Specifically, what's the weight of the cab and the bed of a 73-79 F-series, ballpark number is fine. I know the front clip can be carried by two people, hood and doors are fine, but the others are unknown.
I'm thinking four bottle jacks and jackstands/blocks to get them off the frame and safely supported. Yes, a hoist would be great, but I don't have one and no real place to build a frame for one. Bottle jacks are cheap and multi-purpose.
Any advice would be great. Once the rainy season ends, I have until about August to canniblize the parts truck into the other two, plus get in rebuilds of the parts trucks engine, trans, and tcase.
Thanks.
Matt
Specifically, what's the weight of the cab and the bed of a 73-79 F-series, ballpark number is fine. I know the front clip can be carried by two people, hood and doors are fine, but the others are unknown.
I'm thinking four bottle jacks and jackstands/blocks to get them off the frame and safely supported. Yes, a hoist would be great, but I don't have one and no real place to build a frame for one. Bottle jacks are cheap and multi-purpose.
Any advice would be great. Once the rainy season ends, I have until about August to canniblize the parts truck into the other two, plus get in rebuilds of the parts trucks engine, trans, and tcase.
Thanks.
Matt
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Don't know the weight of the cab, but I got mine off of the frame by using four 4X4's and connecting them at the top and sides with 2X6. Used some cheap hand crank winches attached to the top of the wooded structure. Ran the cables thru the doors and just cranked it up slowly. Rolled the frame out of the way and I had built a frame with wheels to sit the cab on so I could move it around. You have to be kind of carefull since the cab is front heavy towards the firewall.
I haven't tried this method but heard it works. If you take the doors off and use log chains from the door hinge area to where the seat bolts down. One chain attached on the drivers side and one on the passengers side. Where the two chains meet in the middle you can use a cherry picker to lift the cab. Sounds a little easier but I haven't ever tried it so not sure it works.
I haven't tried this method but heard it works. If you take the doors off and use log chains from the door hinge area to where the seat bolts down. One chain attached on the drivers side and one on the passengers side. Where the two chains meet in the middle you can use a cherry picker to lift the cab. Sounds a little easier but I haven't ever tried it so not sure it works.
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I have a pic in my gallery of a lift I built for pulling cabs and beds, works pretty good. I have also done one where I pulled the front suspension and lowered the frame, and put blocks under the cab, worked pretty good. the cab takes about 6 people to lift if it's complete. Bed can be done by 2 or 3.
