F250 dually????

[Soundguy]

so I'm coming home from lunch yesterday and a dually with short bed passes me.. white in color, has fender flair that are not molded inbut add on style. is the extended cab, not crew cab.

looked to be a 99-2006 model.. i was behind him and saw the f250 logo on the tailgate. mind told me.. ahh.. he damaged his tail gate and got a white one from a 250 at the salvage yard. when i got beside him though, his front panel emblem also was f250 psd...

um??

what was i looking at? add on kit for dual wheels and aftermarket fender flairs?

or?

couldn't see rear end good enough to know if it was the big 10.25" rear end and couldn't see the shap well enough to id the rear end from the axle code chart.

??? what did i see? ???

in the past i have seen a chevy s10 converted to a dually.. I have also seen a half ton pickup converted to a 3/4 ton rear end, springs and running gear... but not a 3/4 to 1 ton... opinions?

other than rear end and body lift, what all is different from a 250 to 350 of similar model years.. ie.. would a simple rear end swap with running gear work, then add on the fenders.. or can you simply change out the hubs and add the duals? or???

soundguy

 

[mjncad]

Sounds like the guy converted a F-250 to a dually. I seem to recall an old boss of mine did something similar to an old farm truck he had.

I call my F-250 a F-250-1/2 as the limited slip rear end and towing package I ordered increased the tire size from the factory. For the 1999 model year, the nearest I can the only real difference between a F-250 SRW and a F-350 SRW are the rear springs.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Ford never made a dually F-250. Like you I have seen dually Ranger, Vans, Suburban, ect so anything is possible.

Chris

 

[chevy292]

It's very simple to do. You can order a complete kit off the web. I know only because I did it with a '94 chevy 2500. I bought a kit that included 6 wheels, spacers for the front and spacers for the rear. You just have to understand that it does not increase your legal weight limits. In my case the bed was smashed pretty bad and I wanted a flat bed. Now I also think a flat bed over a set of dually's looks much nicer than a flatbed on a srw truck. The biggest thing I noticed was how much more stable the truck felt, I had never had dually before.

 

[YesDeere]

A friend of mine put 250 emblems on a 350 because of a work truck covenant in his neighborhood.

 

[BillP603]

A friend of mine put 250 emblems on a 350 because of a work truck covenant in his neighborhood.

A 350 is considered a work truck but a 250 is not? haha, reason #8,233 not to live in one of those neighborhoods..

 

[chevy292]

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Here is the website that I used. They have kits for most trucks

 

[WilliamBos]

Yupp, conversion. Way more stable for towing, and look cool too. .

Converting my 1500 CC would look cool.

 

[sandman2234]

I have seen F250 flatbeds with duals, pulled over in the scalehouse at Forsyth, Ga. and talked to the owner for several minutes. Never knew it was out of place to have a 250 with duals (strange, just not out of place) so I didn't question him about it. He was in there because his F250 GVW/GCVW wasn't changed when he added the duals like he thought it should be, and our fine weighmaster decided that shutting him down would be the thing to do until he got his load under F250 limits. I offered to take some of his load, but we didn't have anyway to transfer it to my truck, so it was a mute point.
I get mad ever time I think about that stop at that scalehouse, because the scale operator was one of those people that is right, no matter what the facts say.(another story for another day) He retired to become a pain in somebody else's rear, Thank God!!!
David from jax

 

[Chef Pa]

A 350 is considered a work truck but a 250 is not? haha, reason #8,233 not to live in one of those neighborhoods..

Actually Bill, I think it's reason #8,234 - number 8,233 is the one that says you can't cut your grass on the second Tuesday of the month after 3pm on a full moon... Or maybe that was number 8,235???

Greg