I have an 01 F250 crew cab 2wd with a 7.3 that is my daily driver/tow vehicle and I love the truck. I'm not ready to pull the trigger on anything yet but I have been thinking about swapping it to a short bed dually. I really wanted a dually when I bought it but all the 7.3 DRW's that I was looking at were either way overpriced or beat to hell. My last truck had a 6.0 and I will not buy one unless its studded and those are way overpriced... My truck is real clean and has been trouble free for almost a year. I recently started looking into swapping my single wheel rear into a dually. I really love the look of a dually on 22.5 alcoa semi wheels. So far after a few minutes of research I have found that I can buy a rear axle/suspension/front rotors(maybe breaks too not sure yet) out a wrecked 99-04 F350 DRW. Would I be able to use the 2wd drive shaft? Is it straight forward because I cant have the truck down for a long period of time.
Am I nuts? Should I just leave it alone and trade it for dually? All my friends are telling me that I will kill the value of the truck and that I should leave it alone and sell it to buy a dually. Not sure if its wise to dump $$$ into this truck just to make it a bastard lol.
Have you priced the 22.5 wheels/tires adapters?!?!?$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I just made my OBS CCSB into a dually and I love it. Ford never made it so I had to. Not sure when Ford made a CCSB dually but I have seen some in the SD body style.
The way I look at it, you can TRY and trade your truck for what you want. OR build what you want and get EXACTLY what you want
I realize that I cant straight trade my stock truck for a dually with semi wheels Im talking about trading for a dually and buying the wheels and adapters later...
Thanks guys but we are getting side tracked buy my wheel comment lol. Should I convert my truck to a DRW or sell it and buy another one? If I do the swap I would lower it on a set of stock wheels and buy a used set of Alcoa's when a deal pops up. There are always a used set or two for sale here in South FL.
Build it. A dually bed, 6 wheels and an axle will be about 1500. and you already know what your truck is, or you can sell it and take a gamble on another truck
x3- if you like the truck, youve got good money in it already, you'll be ahead to build it.
For this very reason, I will keep my truck and do body work on it before I buy a slightly newer and nicer looking 7.3 SD. No reason to spend new money fixing the same old things on another old truck...
do the swap, you know whats done and what needs to be done (if anything) mechanical wise to your truck...just think of when u were looking for your truck and how many over priced/beat on ones u had to look at before you found that 1 clean one and you will probably make up your mind to keep your current truck....i keep thinking of grabbing a newer diesel and then i think back on all the trucks i looked at trying to find mine and the money/time i wasted from driving hours to go look at "good condition" "mint truck" "super clean" "no rust" trucks, i JUST went through it all again while looking for a f150 for my brother and there is ALOT of junk out there.
I haven't decided yet what I'm going to do. I have a 4 year old and a drag car project that I have been working on for almost 5 years so free time is pretty much nonexistent. The truck is my DD and I cant afford to have it down for very long. I got pretty frustrated when a dealer with an 02 dually with 8K more miles than mine and looked to be in the same condition as mine told me that his truck was worth $5K more than mine!!!! Big surprise that it has been sitting on his lot since at least Oct 1.
Find a bed and have it painted to match and set it aside
Find a dually axle and do any maintenance it needs, set it aside
Find dually wheels and put tires on, set aside
Find front dually hubs, set them aside.
THEN
On a saturday
Pull bed
put dually axle under rear and 4 rims/tires
Put dually bed on
Pull front tires, put on dually hubs and rims/tires
DONE
Should not take more than 8 hours taking your time
Arrowcraft makes dome really good stuff(I have a pair of their billet steel spacers and fenders) but I have no 1st hand knowledge of their dually adapters
With the newer truck it's a little different.
For a 2017 F350 4x4 SRW with 3.55 the "Maximum Loaded Trailer Weight Ratings" is 15,000 comparable DRW is 21,000
And GCWR 28,700 and 36,000 respectively.
yea it dosnt make sense. I asked the state police about running drw compared to srw to make sure i wouldnt get porked at a check point. told me as long as i stay within the manufacture specs of the truck i am good to go. now its just trying to find a truck to start off with, want as little overhead as possible. thanks again for the help guys
and you never get hasseled?! thats crazy. if i am not mistaken those numbers are the same compared to what i found on fords fleet website FOR SD's
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