Well finally coming together, discovered a good deal on a steel flatbed with a wood floor on craigslist. A russian cowboy told me about it & I went & checked it out. When I saw the shape it was in I had to leave with it, talked about the price alittle & brought her home. It was a hard pull with the 3.55s but the old IDI did it & made it back about 100 miles round trip.
Countryboyrob was my co-pilot on the trip& glad he came along.
So here are some pics-
Cruising along at 65mph with the cruise set-
Yes never washed all the mud off from the other day-
Got back to the house-
The front will meet a cut off wheel tomorrow-
It's a wood bed but the last guy laid down aluim diamond plate over top to dress it up-
I'd be the Russian cowboy who instigated it all Garrett, whatcha gonna do about the rear axle? If this bed is 7ft wide your current SRW axle is a bit too narrow for it, you gonna need a DRW axle to put your single wheels on to get the wheels to line up with the bed sides. A cab-chassis dually axle will be your ticked if you want a DRW setup that don't stick out past the bed sides, but you may have to move the spring perches on it to match your frame... Your thoughts on this?
Good to see ya over here Ivan. :ford:
I'm going to run the SRW for alittle while & see how it does. If she is struggling for power it's going back to 4.10 & getting converted to a dually.
Although I want to say that I could make it a dually as it sits with just a rim & tire swap since it's a HD axle with the dually lug studs on it. I know I played with a set of dodge rims but the back spacing was way off. My buddy tried it on his cab & chasses axle & pickup dually axle & it lined up the same.
I'm going out to prep the truck & the bed, hoping to get her done tonight, calling for 2-5" of snow by tomorrow night. :doh:
More pics to come....
Working alone, Garrett? I could have come to help ya out, but I'm blocked in my the driverway - we tried a quick pads and rotors swap last night on my roommate's Prizm, and ended up shearing the bolts for the driver-side caliper bracket, so now neither of us ain't going nowhere...
He had the shackles flipped, their hangers looked like upside-down "J" - this is supposed to be good for 2" or so lift, but he had to cut holes in the bed right above them.
Alright here are some finished pics- (Don't ask why it looks canted for some reason, it's really straight but it's some weird optical illiusion)
Made out own brackets using 3/8" steel plate steel & 1/2" all thread. Clamped it down on some trimmed up wood & took it down a couple bad dirt roads with some big bumps. It's solid enough that you can jack the whole trucks up off the bed.
Need bigger mirrors-
More to follow as progress progresses.
May not look like much to alot of people but I'm slowly building my dream work truck. :ford:
Dually of course, tis a flatbed after all, flatbeds should be duallies :evil
Gare, that headache rack is sort of what I was suggesting, should work out nice.
For the stacks, are you gonna move the bed a bit towards the rear to open up the gap between the cab and the bed for them? You don't want them too close to the cab, cause it'll be only a matter of time till you or a shotgun-rider gets burned on them...
SRW.. and i kind of like that stack set up cat:evil
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