and the process starts again!!!

[Greg5OH]

i will certainly give you grief.
what the HECK is the point of a 6foot bed when you have a perfectly good 8 foot bed.
I dont get it. I see people with short beds all the time carrying some 8-9 foot lumber or metal rods, and they gotta put em thru the rear sliding window, or have an overhang warning rag. Not to mention you caant transport drywall sheets.
I dunno, just dont get it.j

 

[gingrass179]

Haha I've been waiting for that...and the bed is 5' 2" lol and I'm not usually much of a big bed hauler as long as I can fit my dirt bike everything else can go on the trailer....and let's see your crew cab go where my crew cab will go lol

 

[Greg5OH]

^point taken. impossible for me to fit in a normal sized shopping mall parking lot.

 

[gatorman21218]

i will certainly give you grief.
what the HECK is the point of a 6foot bed when you have a perfectly good 8 foot bed.
I dont get it. I see people with short beds all the time carrying some 8-9 foot lumber or metal rods, and they gotta put em thru the rear sliding window, or have an overhang warning rag. Not to mention you caant transport drywall sheets.
I dunno, just dont get it.j

I agree. I do construction for a living and also have a utility bed. I almost want a 10 foot bed haha. To me there is nothing more useless than a short bed. With a short bed the longest piece of lumber you can carry is 12 foot. I understand about the turning radius and all but why sacrifice that bed space? To each his own i guess.

 

[burt]

That's what lumber racks and trailers are for. Being more nimble maneuvering a trailer around town while still having four doors for people or tools sounds sweet to me. Did you start chopping yet?

 

[gingrass179]

Just started will have some pics tonight

 

[crewd]

I looked through the pictures of the first truck. I like it. I'm split on long beds, I like the space. But using the cclb dually this past weekend I noticed backing up a trailer is not as responsive to direction changes like a rclb. Well, I guess that's more of a wheelbase thing than bed size.

Looking at the pictures of the first truck, I see you channeled the body to fit the hump in the frame. Would you do that again? Looks like you needed 3-4" or so of clearance. A Body lift would show a lot of frame in the front. So curious to see how/if you cut the frame this time around.

Where's the pictures? Last night came and went...

 

[gingrass179]

Sorry no pictures again tonight...not channeling the cab or a body lift...everything that is getting cut is behind first bed bolts and ends inbetween front shackle... Frame is cut tacked put bed on and checked everything...pulled bed off and v cut frame for good penetration...everything almost ready to go back together...

 

[88 Ford]

so kind of off subject to current thread build but i bought a hx 40 with a 6 blade billet wheel...currently 16cm exh housing but going to get a 14 for it pictures soon

Is that gonna be the secondary turbo in a set of compounds? I see it says twin turbo in your sig...

 

[gingrass179]

Twin uppipe turbo...pstroke style

 

[88 Ford]

What are you going to use as your big atmosphere turbo?

 

[gingrass179]

It's a single turbo...just twin uppipes equal length off equal length manifolds short as possible

 

[kc0stp]

If I was worried about driving around town Id take the sports car... I still stand by the fact that a short bed truck was one of the dumbest inventions in the auto industry that led to the large quantity of grocery getter pickups we now have.

 

[88 Ford]

It's a single turbo...just twin uppipes equal length off equal length manifolds short as possible

Oh my bad. I got it now. I look forward to seeing some pics after you start welding the kit...

 

[burt]

Did you decide to just get a sports car and leave it long like was recommended or did you forget to post the pictures