Hey guys I'm new to tyhe site. I'm Looking at getting a new DD. 1996 1997 F 250 CC Short box. The question is does the truck have TTB like all other 250s.
Or does it have a D50 monobeam axle (just a rumor i heard). I have never had a chance to crawl under on of these trucks.

 

F250 will have either a D44 or D50 ttb, and a F350 will have a D60 monobeam. if stock. alot of people switched the ttb for a D60 monobeam, so i is possible to find a F250 with a D60 in it, but it was added by a previous owner after it was built by ford.

 

It most certainly has a Dana 50 TTB, most of these trucks do. None of them came with the Dana 50 monobeam, only a few years of the Superduty (99-01 I beleieve) came with those axles. As for the Dana 60 monobeam, a few owners have swapped these in, but your chances of finding one of these trucks for sale is pretty slim. Good luck finding a truck!

 

I could never understand why all the manufactures of pick up trucks went to idependant suspensions for a better ride. A truck is a truck, if someone wants a nice ride buy a car.

 

Exactly what i thought. Thanks for the help.

 

ahhhh but you see, that is the rub. the city folk want to be cool and drive them a 4X4 pickumup truck, but don't want the ride of a truck.

they want a 4X4 truck, but also want it to ride like a Cadellac.

and the vehicle manufacturers listen to the idgiots that gots the money.

 

I dunno, Tom...I think I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you, up to a certain point in time, anyway. When Ford introduced the Twin I-beam, trucks were still, well...TRUCKS! Ford found a good way to get away from the solid front axle without going to a short/long arm suspension, a la Shivvy (then on the other hand, you have the Dodges, which hung on to the solid front axle WAAAAY too long!). Even back in 1980 when Ford came out with the Twin Traction-Beam, they still weren't the citified piece-of-crap front ends that we have to deal with today.

But I'm not COMPLETELY disagreeing with you...it's the city folk who ruined truck suspensions. The other day I saw a '97-'03 F-150 and thought, "I'll NEVER own one of those!" and I mean it. I've long thought that a good solution for city folks is to kill SUVs and shove AWD station wagons down their throats. 99% of those people never use trucks and SUVs for their intended purpose (the H2 and H3 Hummers spring instantly to mind, but I reckon Durangos, Escapes, Explorers, etc. can be lumped into that category, too), so a station wagon would be just what they need.

OK, rant mode off...I, too, am sick of what city people have forced the manufacturers to do to trucks.
Pat