single or duals?

[hosko]

I have a 73 F 250 it used to belong to one of the local fire dept's. This truck was used as a mini pumper, the truck to the best of my knowledge was ordered with a one ton rear axel . My question is put a pickup bed on it and put single wheels on or leave the duals on? Tell me what you think. Thanks

 

[Truckin4life]

The hubs and axle width's are different for srw or drw...
It will look goofy with one rear wheel if it s drw set up...
i say put what it supposed to have on it.
Just cause its a 1 ton dont make it a drw...

 

[hosko]

Thanks for the info,I guess I'd better do a serial number search to find out which its suppose to have.

 

[john112deere]

^^Being somewhat lazy about tracking down parts I don't have...

I'd be tempted to build a flatbed over whatever axle is under the thing, so long as it's in good shape.

 

[73F100Shortbed]

I would leave it the way it was built, imo. Post up some pics so we can get a look at it.

 

[hosko]

Thanks for the reply, ill try to get some pictures up for you. Its hard to do sometimes with a Blackberry. The person I bought the truck from put a dumping flat bed on it. The body needs some work, they use a lot of road salt in the winter here and the truck was used to plow city streets by the township after the fire dept took the truck out of service.

 

[LEB Ben]

Personally, to add a little more function, I'd add a bed...but I'd find a srw axle first. However, I wouldn't add a typical bed...I'd probably go with a loggers box. If this is on a budget though, keep it as is. I can't remember the VIN's off the top of my head, but if this was a cab/chassis truck, the 3rd digit should be 7 or 8. And since you said it was a 250 and Ford didn't do 4x4 duallies, your first 3 digits of your VIN should be F27/8.

 

[hosko]

Thanks for the reply, you have me deep in thought now! The vin is F26YCQ45972. I did verify that it did belong to a local VFD they probly added the ton axel so they would have a 4X4 brush truck. The rear springs are 12 leaf with overloads.

 

[LEB Ben]

VIN seems to check out...I'm getting an Oct. 72 build date. So it looks like they ordered the 4x4, added the drw and the flatbed. I always that that was a cool looking combo...so I'd leave it. Originally, I thought you were talking about a 2wd.

 

[hosko]

I'm trying to get some pictures for you all to see if I can get my blackberry to work properly, thanks for all the replys so far.

 

[hosko]

Here is some more to think about! I have my 66 with a 429 I haven't started on yet, I would like to finish them both but I'm not sure I will be able to. I'm thinking about taking the 429 out of the 66 and selling the rest of the truck and put that money toward the 73 and put the 429 in the 73? Any suggestions!

 

[fordrka1975]

Middletowne?

I have a 73 F 250 it used to belong to one of the local fire dept's. This truck was used as a mini pumper, the truck to the best of my knowledge was ordered with a one ton rear axel . My question is put a pickup bed on it and put single wheels on or leave the duals on? Tell me what you think. Thanks

Just curious, did that truck come from Middletowne Md.? Some fire companies had aluminum utility beds, if yours is aluminum you should be able to sell it. You might want to measure wheelbase first to be sure a pickup bed will work. Randy.

 

[hosko]

No the truck is a Wv truck. After the VFD took the truck out of service the township took over the truck and used it to plow the city streets for many years. It has a steel bed on it now.

 

[cipsmithers]

 

[LEB Ben]

Tell that to your sig.

 

[LEB Ben]

Here is some more to think about! I have my 66 with a 429 I haven't started on yet, I would like to finish them both but I'm not sure I will be able to. I'm thinking about taking the 429 out of the 66 and selling the rest of the truck and put that money toward the 73 and put the 429 in the 73? Any suggestions!

That would definitely be a hot setup. However, I'd find a 'throwaway' engine to put the 66...it'll bring in more cash as a runner than a rolling chassis. I'm sure you could find an engine/tranny combo for a couple hundred to throw in the 66...usually doing that will up a sale price by about a grand.

 

[cipsmithers]

Tell that to your sig.

I know it, i moved some things around on my photobucket and didnt redo the sig. cant do anything about it here at school, cant access photobucket

 

[Truckin4life]

I say ben is spot on with his statement, find a motor to make the truckmove on its own, then sell it...

 

[hosko]

Thanks for all the reply's I'm still undecided about what to do but if I decide to go that route I will put an engine back in the 66. Thanks
Daryl

 

[hosko]

I'm sorry still no pictures but I'm working on it. The wife say's keep them both, that way ill stay out of trouble for a while ha ha!!