7 Lug F250 ???

[Eason]

Its true. When ford killed off the OBS trucks in 1996, they had no real 3/4 ton truck for a couple of years. The new F150 was modified as a stop gap measure to be a light F250 until the superduty was ready for sale. I would avoid those trucks as much as possible. They are not very common and getting parts would probably get harder in the years ahead.

Imagine that, ford not having a 3/4 ton truck but it happened.

The idea of splitting the pickup line into two seperate platforms was to offer a heavier work truck in the superduty, and a lighter 1/2 ton truck in the F150. Now the F150 today is basically a 3/4 ton truck anyway.

Ford was still building the F250/350 in the old body style through 97. The 99's came out a year early. If you remember Ford built a f-250 without a full floating axle. Ford built f-250s and a F-250HD at the same time. The 7 lug axle took the place of the f-250 LD with the light duty axle. Ford still builds the truck with the 7 lug axle (or at least they did last year) but calls it a F-150 HD Eason

 

[Burt Phillips]

I know this is an old thread but I just got a 1998 F-250 gifted to me and it has the 7 lugs with covers that are also 7 lugs and this is a first for me and I've been driving Ford's since 1990 when I turned 16 and bought a 66 long bed for 300 bucks. I'm wanting to sell it but not sure if I call it a half ton or 3/4 ton. Any ideas of what I should tell ppl what I have because I don't know what I have. It's a f250 2 wheel drive 3 door lariet???

 

[Knuckledragger]

A bad dream continues... The 7 lug wheel covers started in 1997 were still used as standard issue on Vans until at least 2014. Not sure if Ford was using them up or did not think anyone would notice. I did.

 

[u2slow]

I know this is an old thread but I just got a 1998 F-250 gifted to me and it has the 7 lugs with covers that are also 7 lugs and this is a first for me and I've been driving Ford's since 1990 when I turned 16 and bought a 66 long bed for 300 bucks. I'm wanting to sell it but not sure if I call it a half ton or 3/4 ton. Any ideas of what I should tell ppl what I have because I don't know what I have. It's a f250 2 wheel drive 3 door lariet???

Coincidence or not, these 7-lug trucks are 7700# GVWR. I would call it a light 3/4-ton, just like the 4.9 & 5.0L F250's before it.

The rear end on these early ones is actually a 7-lug 10.25" semi-float, likely with drums. (I did a trac-lok upgrade on one.) Disc, and the 9.75" came later.

 

[snicklas]

They are considered a light duty F-250 (3/4 ton). Dad had one. 97 and 98 I think are the only years they called them an F-250. In 99 I think they started calling them the f-150 7700. Which is now the “heavy payload” option On the F-150. I know at least up until 2011. 7 lug was still an option on an F-150. If you look back through the thread, I have posted pictures of it. That was 2 trucks ago though, now he has a 16 SuperCrew

 

[david85]

Old thread, but as it so happens I ended up having a company truck in 2014 with this setup. It was a brand new F150 supercrew. Not a bad truck but it had a lot of sway on the highway. Never could figure out why (yes, I checked the pressure in the 10-ply tires). The 5.0 engine wasn't bad though.

So it looks like 7-lug hubs were offered up to 2014 at the very least.

 

[Jesus Freak]

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Hey, no dissing on the Panther platform, ya know how much abuse they can take? lol

And the weird thing is that while these F250s do indeed have 7-lug wheels, there are tons of E-series vans out there that run around with similar style 7-lug wheel covers, yet they do have 8 lugs under them - now what's the logic (or lack thereof) behind that???

I know this is an older thread too, but I have to put my 2¢ in. I was 15 when dodge rolled their fenders and curvied up their already ugly trucks in the mid '90s, and I told everyone that Dodge has ruined trucks forever. And what happened next, but here comes ford with not trucks, but hideous rocket ship looking star trek things with aluminum headed abominations! Alright, I'm done.....thank you.