72 F100 project, longbed to short conv, CV swap, 20s

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Re: 72 F100 project, long bed to short bed conversion

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AK F100 wrote:Looks great man. Keep it up and you'll have her done in no time. :thup:
I hope so, but it has taken me a while to get to this point. Frame chop was done back in March and the bed cut in Aug. I was able to make a nice progress over the holidays.
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Yeah, now I've got an extra bed. The old one is up against the wall in my garage and since I need the space will have to sell it. My first thought was to cut it up and use it to repair the other one but decided against doing that. Anyone need a "long" short bed?
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fordman wrote:no there are two different beds in those pics. the first one is a long bed with the front shortened. the second one is a shortbed that he repaired.
your right, i missed that sentance that said he found one :doh:
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Hey,

I've seen that bed and drivers door before.

Work looks great. I'm glad you could use the parts.
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dablack00 wrote:Hey,

I've seen that bed and drivers door before.

Work looks great. I'm glad you could use the parts.
Yep, but now that I got it together I'm thinking of taking it apart to work on the suspension.
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That is the way it goes on these things. You look at one thing and want to fix it. You fix it and then another thing really sticks out at you. Then you think, "hey, these things are pretty easy to take apart and put back together, I do that too." Next thing you know you have a bare frame sitting in the driveway.
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I may have goofed on mine I cut out 17 inches based on bed dimensions I found here at Fordification.com, I guess I'll be stuck with cutting my long bed down.
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DavidJoe wrote:I may have goofed on mine I cut out 17 inches based on bed dimensions I found here at Fordification.com, I guess I'll be stuck with cutting my long bed down.
You may be able to move the axle back an inch?
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So just add another update, I removed and cut out all the ibeam suspension. Original plan was to go mustang II but I'm most likely going to do a crown vic swap

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Good idea. You will save alot of money going with the 03-07 cv front suspesnion and its almost a bolt in setup.
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The truck looks great. Thanks for all the pics and keep us updated. 8)
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carcrafter22 wrote:Good idea. You will save alot of money going with the 03-07 cv front suspesnion and its almost a bolt in setup.
Yeah, I still remember reading your other thread last year, thinking... That's brilliant!!
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I'm hoping to make some more progress soon, brought home an 05 cv crossmember...

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gave it good power wash...

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Re: 72 F100 project, long bed to short bed conversion

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Cant wait to see some pic of the instalation. great job :thup:
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Re: 72 F100 project, long bed to short bed conversion

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looks good! I am looking at doing the CV suspension as well. How do you know where to locate the lower rear mount?
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