He Built His Own F-800 Dually Pickup

He Built His Own F-800 Dually Pickup PICKUPS Miscellaneous Doug Fry has done the tough part of chopping his 1987 F-800 Ford and turning it into a 210 hp dually pickup with a crew cab All he has left is fixing up the inside doing a little bodywork and giving it a fresh coat of paint What he doesn’t plan to do is fill the twin 115-gal fuel tanks salvaged from a Western Star truck “Filling it up would cost me about $1 000 ” notes Fry “I put the tanks on it not for the capacity but mostly for the steps They fit well for getting in and out of the front and back of the crew cab ” It was the crew cab that got Fry thinking about chopping the F800 in the first place He hadn’t seen many with them and thought it would look even better as a pickup “I took out about 6 ft of frame and driveshaft moved the rear end forward and then cut off some more of the rear frame ” says Fry “I found a 1997 Ford pickup bed that matched the body length of the now shorter truck To get clearance for the rear duals I used square tubing to raise the bed up 5 1/2 in ” Fry put 10-hole Budd wheels with 11 22 5 tires on them The 7 8L Ford diesel and the Allison 4-speed automatic were left unchanged as were the air brakes “You don’t see many pickups with air brakes ” says Fry Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Doug Fry 30049 Federal Lane Eugene Ore 97402 ph 541 689-1909; frytruckin@aol com

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