Eason
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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