WY FARMER

This is my first post and I am trying to decide on a flat bed for my 92 dodge. If any of you have pictures of yours with flat beds on them I would love to see them. Thanks

pulltilbroke

Welcome, you'll find a lot of helpful information and people here

Heres the old mans 91 with a Bradford on it

BearKiller

Is your truck single-rear-wheel, or duals ??

A flat that looks awesome on a DRW, usually don't look so good on an SRW, and vice-versa.

crewcabxlt

cummins powered ford.

crewcabxlt

try pics again

crewcabxlt

this is the one i wanted to load

The_Head

Where in Wyoming are you?

kc8ksg

Mines a homemade job the PO made. I agree DRW looks way better and thought about getting spacers and doing so, but haveing one dually and buying 6 35" tires at one time is enough for me, and since my 91' is just a DD I figured it can just stay SRW.


Chris

BearKiller

Notice on the blue SRW truck how the flat is barely wider than the cab and looks appropriate for an SRW truck, whereas the full-width flats on the DRW trucks will leave the SRW tires lost way back under there.

apwatson50

This is before the dana 80, but not the edge of the tires is flush with the edge of the bed.

torqmonster

I was kickin around the idea of putting a flatbed on my 93, but if I dId, I have a dually axle laying around I would probably throw under it and get the wider flatbed. I just pull a gooseneck and plow in the winter with the truck, just my around the farm truck, but the box is pretty good yet, so I haven't decided. But I like seeing the options! I'm also thinking about building a bumper for the front.

ppiggppenn

WOW that Cummins powered Ford is a fine looking machine! I like my flatbed for its usefulness and the rest, but pretty it aint. It was cobbled together by a PO as a welder truck and has round holes in the deck for gas bottles. I bought it for the Cummins and was gonna get a box, but before I could find one I used the deck for some massive hauls of yard materials that a box couldn't have done short of three trips. Mine has air-overloads too, and they STILL WORK! I had a VW Jetta on back, and got back to level with only 30 lbs of air in them. A pick-up box couldn't have done that.

WY FARMER

Thanks for the pictures keep them coming my truck is a srw. Dose any one have a picture of a srw with a bradford bed on it? I sure like those beds but not sure how it would look on a 1st gen.

BearKiller

Probably the most convenient thing about a steel flat is that, when someone gets too close, what would end up being a $1800 trip to the body-shop, plus the aggravation of being without the truck for several days, plus having to drive around the eyesore while waiting on the body-shop, explaining to all the nosy ones what happened, can usually be fixed back good as new with a can of Dollar General Store Gloss Black.



Recently, a guy driving a very long steel flat-bed mis-judged and got against the side of the flat on my truck.

My truck was scooted sideways about three feet in the loose gravel; a pick-up-bed would have been squished plumb to the frame-rails.

Two minutes and maybe 1/3-can of Dollar Store paint and good as new.

Benjamin b2

mine got hit sideways by a dodge neon, i bought a new hubcap and her car, but i drove home, like said previously, spray bomb and your good as new