Shortening the Long bed to shortbed

tcoupekyle · Post by **tcoupekyle** » May 7, 2008, 10:53 am

I got a Longbed... and I was wondering.. about the frame what does it take to shorten it to accept a shortbed. My truck is a 1966 Ford F-100 Longbed.

grabber64 · Post by **grabber64** » May 7, 2008, 4:34 pm

you would have to cut the frame with a z style cut. go to www.trucks.com, the tv show, and look at what they are doing to a chevy like that. they are even using the long bed and shortening it too.

jecsd1 · Post by **jecsd1** » May 7, 2008, 5:47 pm

Tcoupe, as far as I know it's not all that uncommon as long as you can weld structural type weld beads. I saw that same episode of trucks. They did a good job. As good a place to start as any.

Garbz · Post by **Garbz** » May 7, 2008, 10:08 pm

Doc there are two long bed slick trailers for sale on phoenix craigslist.

PS...Kyle scroll to the top of the page and look to the left...the truck in our logo belongs to the boss of the outfit Foodstick. A long bed converted to a short bed.

Garbz

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » May 7, 2008, 10:54 pm

Dave. The pic in the Logo is Jimdog's, in Columbia SC if yer close enough to visit him.
Foodstick's, which looked similar, is now owned by Kid's brother and WILL be at SS3 just like he was at the last 2

fr0gman · Post by **fr0gman** » May 7, 2008, 11:30 pm

I saw my Grandfather do this for a 70 Chevy years ago. He cut the frame at the front on one side and the rear on the other. Welded them together and then welded plate steel on the inside and outside about 4 to 6 inches to either side of the cuts. I also believe that he put large bolts through the plates and the frame on either end of the plate.

I do know that the truck ran the roads back home for many years and I never saw it "listing to port".

Garbz · Post by **Garbz** » May 7, 2008, 11:45 pm

By golly it is... when did the 66 get up there?(Bad Eyes)

I still have the original excite shirts with sticks truck on it.

And unless some one takes down that friggin clock i aint going no where....

Garbz

tcoupekyle · Post by **tcoupekyle** » May 8, 2008, 12:30 am

appreciate it yall I was mainly wondering if I'd have to take it out right behind the cab or If I could just hack off the back........ Guess I gots to weld to do it. not a big deal....... My long bed got hit by an 18 wheeler recently and All I can seem to find is SWB trucks in the junk yards any way Thanks again

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » May 8, 2008, 8:32 am

Kyle. That's a switch for sure, usually the shortbeds are the hard-to-find-in a junkyard model.
might be easier to pick up a whole frame for one too, and just swap the good stuff off your truck onto it, if it was hit that bad. The frame might be pushed out of alignment on yours.

Best O luck.

helicorbin · Post by **helicorbin** » May 14, 2008, 7:13 pm

decide what you want now, I thought I wanted to stay lwb and now my two link mounts are in the way, have you thought about building a custom bed?tow truck? stakebed?

DV65CustomCab · Post by **DV65CustomCab** » May 15, 2008, 5:51 am

Longbeds.
Don't be hatin.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » May 15, 2008, 8:14 am

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » May 15, 2008, 11:59 am

On my crew cab I cut the back of the frame off and slid the box forwrd, but I was 'C' notching the frame where the diff ended up anyways. I then drilled out the rivets holding the leaf mounts on and moved em forward too.
I've shortened a few trucks by taking a piece of the frame out behind the cab, I did my cut on a 45 degree angle, fish plated and boxed it in.

-Shiny