cab catastrophe..turn into v-ruck?

[trugertha1]

well i thought that my fender had just gotten loose and out of adjustment..but nope broke all the mounts to the cab for the fender, cracked the cab all the way across to the drivers side...so thats the end of this cab, i was wanting to cut up a van and make a bed for it, anyone ever do this??? also is it a total PITA to work on the motor in a van?

 

[IDIDieselJohn]

Ouch!! First time I hear something like that for a cab to crack right across like that. And yes it is a PITA to work on the motor of a van....sometimes I like to use other words to describe working on a van but I won't use them here lol

 

[trugertha1]

haha ...well then i dunno ill have to really think my idea out..i just thought it would be cool to have a van truck haha i always wanted one

 

[IDIDieselJohn]

Me to I always wanted to have a van truck lol, i've seen one on ebay and ohhh man they look sweet Or just the front of a Van with a flat bed body!!

 

[towcat]

how many miles before this happened?
i had a little over 500k miles when my cab on my f450 carrier pulled apart to the point the rear window was threatening to fall out. the firewall was toast 150k before that.

 

[PackRat]

i just thought it would be cool to have a van truck haha i always wanted one

Uhm...Yeah. 75 years ago, they called it a sedan delivery.

 

[Metalmacguyver]

Pics?

 

[trugertha1]

Me to I always wanted to have a van truck lol, i've seen one on ebay and ohhh man they look sweet Or just the front of a Van with a flat bed body!!

i dunno how long to make the van portion yet but im definatly goin to be doin this in the near future..just gotta find that van haha

 

[trugertha1]

how many miles before this happened?
i had a little over 500k miles when my cab on my f450 carrier pulled apart to the point the rear window was threatening to fall out. the firewall was toast 150k before that.

trucks got 270,000kms on it...but this truck has been literally rammed into mud pits slammed into road deactivations and just generally abused by me...all in all i beat the living chit out of this truck since the day i got it, never left me stranded.

 

[trugertha1]

Pics?

ill put up pics soon my camera died and all i have to take pics is my labtop.

 

[1994Diesel]

Uhm...Yeah. 75 years ago, they called it a sedan delivery.

Van+ truck bed= VanTruck

 

[trugertha1]

Van+ truck bed= VanTruck

yes sir, just like the old centurion van trucks

 

[-=DeanstuD=-]

there is a neat van flatbed here in portland on the craigslist for $1800

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There are allot in Austrailia like this.

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[smooth]

This is mine (though not a diesel....yet). 460/C6/60/4.11 Posi

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More pics Here: http://www.supermotors.net/registry/19964

It was made by a company called Cabriolet.

MoMo

 

[85hauler]

I had a cab on a '85 F250 ext.cab 2wd 460 truck do the same thing. The cab basically fell down around the floor. No idea how many miles were on it. It was the stiffest sprung truck I ever had. I always figured that's why it broke.

I pulled the 460 from it and put it in a 4wd ext. cab. A year and a half later cracked that frame in 5 places in and around the the front crossmember. The 460 now resides in the the back of my box/storage truck waiting for its next victim.