I have run across an old U-Haul truck for sale. It is the one ton dually with out the box for $750. I have not had a chance to go look at it up close but as I understand they did not have the 'normal' Ford motors in them. My Question is did they use "normal" trans?
If I did go get it I have a 460 that I would want to drop in but want to keep it a stick shift. Also drop a Supercab and long bed on it.
Any one no anything about these trucks? I did do a search and that is where I came up with the "other than standard" Ford motor part.

 

They had Ford industrial motors in them, like the 429 as example. They could use normal trans, but they also could use industrial trannys too. It depends on how they were ordered and built. You could order a fleet of Chassis cabs, with or without engines and trannys as example.

Also they were F-350 Dual Rear wheel Chassis Cabs.

So a regular bed won't fit them without serious modification, the least of which would be fender flares.

So Unless you just want to put a flat bed on it, ...

It would require a lot of modification to do what you are wanting to do with it. Depending on Wheelbase, Shortening or lengthening the frame, for starters.
Be more trouble than it's worth IMO for what you want to do with it.

It would make someone a really good flatbed, or small dump truck.

 

buyin a u haul truck is kinda like goin to a brothel lookin for a wife. Ya dont know what its been put through and there are some things you just dont wanna stick your key in.

 

My understanding is that U-haul trucks came with the 330cu in FT (heavy truck version of the FE) engine.

 

That sounds right. or at least until that engine was discontinued anyway.
The 429 reference was just an example and not definitive.

 

LMAO!!!! crazyredneck those are words to live by. Thank you. LOL!

 

The engine is supposed to be a 330 FT, but which one?

It depends on how many times the engine has been changed over the years. And even then it's a crap shoot.

When the engine was changed when the truck was still owned by U-Haul, the rebuilt engines had to be bought from a Ford dealer who got them from the local rebuilder who was tied to Ford Motor Company (Ford Authorized Rebuilder). This was part of the Ford/U-Haul contract.

The Ford/U-Haul contract also stipulated that local Ford dealers in large metropolitan areas do all the line work (brakes, engines etc).

Here's the good, or bad news:

From 1964 thru 1972, there were two 330 FT engines: 330 M/D and 330 H/D, the engines are not really related to one another.

The 330 M/D is related to the FE engines, the 330 H/D is related to the FT 361's and 391's.

Now it's 1973, Ford dropped the 330 M/D engine, and then called the 330 H/D engine a 330 Medium Duty engine!

So...what was in there 1973/79, was what Ford refered to as a 330 Medium Duty, only problem was, as I said...it was really a 330 Heavy Duty, and U-Haul called them XD's...Extra Duty's.

So what's in there now? Who knows? It depended on the last engine change. I've seen these F350's with the early 330 M/D engines, and the so called 1973 M/D's.

What it really is.....is a home grown FoMoCo/U-Haul Frankenstein Monster!

Info source: I worked at two dealers in Los Angeles (Coberly & Crenshaw) who had the U-Haul contract to fixum.

I thought I had seen the last of them when I left Coberly for Crenshaw...only problem was, Coberly folded, then Crenshaw got the contract. (oh well....)

btw: Once one gets past the engine mish-mash, the rest of the mechanics are pretty simple to figure out. Only one type of brakes, and it could have a C6, or maybe a 4 speed.

 

It does have the 4-spd. Do the 330 share bellhousing pattern with FE's?

 

well, i have one now, from reading this and finding a label behind the resovior, i have the 330, nut sure if its an HD,MD, OR XD? Its a 79 350 with a 4 speed.

As for the post about making them a flatbed, mine came without the U-haul sides on it, all that was left was the bottom of the cargo box. Great flatbed

 

Old thread but hoping someone could help me find one of the UHaul C6’s used behind the 330? Thanks: Jim