SPEIRMOOR Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 No. All of the body panels are exactly the same. An F100 may sit lower, but end-to-end and side-to-side an F100 and an F350 are exactly the same. Great info Gary, thanks. Time to beat the bushes and see what pops up . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Just to add a spanner to the works. Would a '83 F100 be much smaller than an F150 from the same year? F-100 likely to have car pattern wheel lugs and no power brakes. Not sure why you want less truck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEIRMOOR Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 F-100 likely to have car pattern wheel lugs and no power brakes. Not sure why you want less truck? Someone had a lead on one for sale and I had never considered an F100. All things considered I'm gonna stick to my guns and look for my original configuration 1980-86 F150 Styleside Shortbed,4x4,Automatic & A/C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEIRMOOR Posted February 18, 2021 Author Share Posted February 18, 2021 Someone had a lead on one for sale and I had never considered an F100. All things considered I'm gonna stick to my guns and look for my original configuration 1980-86 F150 Styleside Shortbed,4x4,Automatic & A/C So as regards the '80-'86 F-150. Is a shortbed with 2 Gas tanks the same length as one with only one tank. Do Longbeds follow the same metric. I'm guess I'm correct but never hurts to confirm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 So as regards the '80-'86 F-150. Is a shortbed with 2 Gas tanks the same length as one with only one tank. Do Longbeds follow the same metric. I'm guess I'm correct but never hurts to confirm. All short beds are the same length and all long beds are the same length. The beds themselves. Regardless of the # of tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEIRMOOR Posted February 18, 2021 Author Share Posted February 18, 2021 All short beds are the same length and all long beds are the same length. The beds themselves. Regardless of the # of tanks. Great Gary, Thanks again 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 F-100 likely to have car pattern wheel lugs and no power brakes. Not sure why you want less truck? Don't be so quick there sparky The F100 came with both wheel bolt patterns and with or with out power brakes, I had 1 of each both 81's and the same GVWR of 4700 IIRC Now what was funny the large pattern (5x5.5) was the non-power brakes, short bed flare side. The small pattern (5x4.5) was the power brakes, style side long bed. They also used different kingpin sizes, 5.5 had the larger pins. Everything, beams out to the wheel hub, in the front suspension will swap as a whole but parts WILL NOT swap between them as I found out the hard way Dave --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 F-100 likely to have car pattern wheel lugs and no power brakes. Not sure why you want less truck? Don't be so quick there sparky The F100 came with both wheel bolt patterns and with or with out power brakes, I had 1 of each both 81's and the same GVWR of 4700 IIRC Now what was funny the large pattern (5x5.5) was the non-power brakes, short bed flare side. The small pattern (5x4.5) was the power brakes, style side long bed. They also used different kingpin sizes, 5.5 had the larger pins. Everything, beams out to the wheel hub, in the front suspension will swap as a whole but parts WILL NOT swap between them as I found out the hard way Dave --- Dave, I didn't mean necessarily together. Just that with an F100 you could have car hubs. And that you were more likely to have non-assisted brakes in the lighter F-100. I haven't seen a SBSS up here in decades. Not much call for a work vehicle that can't fit sheet goods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Dave, I didn't mean necessarily together. Just that with an F100 you could have car hubs. And that you were more likely to have non-assisted brakes in the lighter F-100. I haven't seen a SBSS up here in decades. Not much call for a work vehicle that can't fit sheet goods. It was strange that the short bed had the large pattern wheels and non-power brakes and the long bed just the other way around. Funny you say that about the bed and fitting sheet goods. I told my wife if I ever got a pick up it had to be a long bed for the same reason and what did I end up with ........ a short bed truck Dave ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Dave, I didn't mean necessarily together. Just that with an F100 you could have car hubs. And that you were more likely to have non-assisted brakes in the lighter F-100. I haven't seen a SBSS up here in decades. Not much call for a work vehicle that can't fit sheet goods. It was strange that the short bed had the large pattern wheels and non-power brakes and the long bed just the other way around. Funny you say that about the bed and fitting sheet goods. I told my wife if I ever got a pick up it had to be a long bed for the same reason and what did I end up with ........ a short bed truck Dave ---- Being in the building trades it is pretty important to me. Especially back in the day when there were no hot shot deliveries, there were bigger minimums that were often a week out and no boom trucks, so you might have to dump a 36' straight truck and then have to bump tons of material by hand (back around the house, for example) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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