8' tonner box interchange?
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8' tonner box interchange?
I will be picking up a '47 tonner pickup with cut running boards and no box. I know of a '65 f250 8' flareside pickup but not easy for me to get to right away and the owner is pretty old to be crawling around measuring. Anybody know if these boxes are close? Rear fenders will be the challenge to find. I can make running boards and as far as being 'correct', this won't be judged at car shows, just a cool pickup that will most likely powered with my cummins 6at 220 cu in, 120 hp turbo diesel. I will be collecting parts simultaneously for this project and my '47 woody project. Hoping that f250 box isn't junk by now......
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Gary - the diagram of the 122" wheelbase tonner shows there is 48" from the rear of the cab to the c/l of the rear axle. I have a diagram of the 1963 Flareside showing the same 122" wheelbase and 48" distance to c/l of the axle. But reading in Wagner's book it looks like the F-250 2wd wheelbase was lengthened in 1965 to 128.8". That is enough difference that your rear wheels would probably be off center. If the donor '65 is a 4x4 it might be different yet. I don't see numbers for the '65, but the '64 4x4 had a 120" wheelbase. Stu
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the one on the island is a 2wd. I can't find a phone number for the old guy that owns it so maybe tomorrow just drop by. Thanks for going to bat for me on so many dimensions and layouts!
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Thanks guys. I have since learned that the '48-52 box is nearly identical in all respects to the original tonner box except for fender bolts. Without looking again I think they are all 54" wide. Biggest difference with after '52 is they aren't embossed on the sides. Flat sheet metal, not a big deal but fenders when i find them won't lay right.
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I have always thought the same thing. Here's a pic from a CL ad for a 47 tonner but close ups show really rusty floors and door bottoms and a lot of other places. Still a very handsome truck in my book.
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That it is
I envy you that you find all those straight old pickups and tonners, not much of that stuff around here and when you do find it, it's suffered a live of rutted 2 track roads and the bottom half of the rear fenders beat off from tire chains.
I also envy you that you can putt around in original flatheads. Everything here is 100+ miles away or 65-80 mph speed limits, makes getting out of town with something like your stock tonner panel difficult.
I envy you that you find all those straight old pickups and tonners, not much of that stuff around here and when you do find it, it's suffered a live of rutted 2 track roads and the bottom half of the rear fenders beat off from tire chains.
I also envy you that you can putt around in original flatheads. Everything here is 100+ miles away or 65-80 mph speed limits, makes getting out of town with something like your stock tonner panel difficult.
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Port Townsend is a lot like here, as you know. All you'd have to do is take the short ferry to Whidbey Island, drive a half hour north and we'd meet up at Sharp's Corner where hiway 20 crosses. That takes us right over Washington Pass and into the dry climate of North Central Washington. About 3 1/2 hours in my '92 pulling a trailer. The 4 trucks I'm hauling back were in this guys back junkyard. He was trying to encourage me to cut up the 1/2 ton panel for my woody project because he thought it would be a better fit, and it was 'so rough'. Upon closer inspection it is in better shape than the tonner panel I bought in Minnesota and had transported here. This 1/2 ton panel won't be cut up btw. All his good stuff (drool) were in his front yard and a couple of sheds out front.
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Picked up a box from a '52 and it's a perfect fit. Even the bolts go through the holes in the frame. This bed is pretty rough but the tonner will probably become a period gas station tow truck to use around the place. Fuel transfer tank behind the cab, oxy-atcetylene outfit and a short boom and winch. Now that I have a junkyard on my place, I need the 'junkyard dog' to move stuff around....
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