Regular Cab Super bed... Just an idea...

[Dustincoc]

I'm sure we've all seen the posts about building a extended cab long bed. Just separate the front and rear frame sections on an extended cab and a longbed and combine the longbed rear and the extended cab front.

I've been thinking about the possibility of doing that but instead of keeping the extended cab, put the regular cab on the longer frame and then stretching the longbed to make up the difference in length between a regular cab and extended cab.

Just an idea, I don't have the money or trucks to do it.

 

[RonD]

No reason you couldn't.
Get two beds, cut and weld to match body lines.

Now finding a canopy, that would be the hard part, lol.

 

[Dustincoc]

No reason you couldn't.
Get two beds, cut and weld to match body lines.

Now finding a canopy, that would be the hard part, lol.

Could maybe narrow a full size truck canopy... I'd probably just throw a ladder rack and rack boxes on it though. Super reinforce the rear frame and throw a dually axle on it with heavy duty suspension. Basically a Ranger with the capabilities of a F250.

 

[Ranger-rick]

Could maybe narrow a full size truck canopy... I'd probably just throw a ladder rack and rack boxes on it though. Super reinforce the rear frame and throw a dually axle on it with heavy duty suspension. Basically a Ranger with the capabilities of a F250.

It would have a long bed but it would still have no where near the capabilities of an F250.

The F250 has a much beefier frames, drive line, axles, engine. Etc etc.

It would essentially be a Ranger with with a dually axle with maybe the capabilities of an F150, not nearly a 3/4 ton though.

 

[Dustincoc]

I said super reinforce the frame. Probably be easier to narrow a '87-'91 f-super duty frame though. Use a narrowed f250 axle. Maybe squeeze a '87-'91 7.3l diesel V8 under the hood.

 

[adsm08]

You do know the modular frame is only on the 98 and up, right?

 

[Captain Ledd]

Not to burst bubbles, but if you're really using it for heavy duty stuff, you really should just buy a bigger truck. The weight of the truck actually does play a part in keeping things under control (among many other things). You'll find that once you have the capabilities of a F250, you really should have just done a body swap... on a F250.

Otherwise the idea would be great if you needed to carry longer things that weren't particularly heavy.

The Ranger was designed as a light duty run around truck. Which it excels at. Each vehicle is designed for a purpose and niche, and a Ranger just isn't going to be an F250... ever.

 

[Mark_88]

The Ranger was designed as a light duty run around truck. Which it excels at. Each vehicle is designed for a purpose and niche, and a Ranger just isn't going to be an F250... ever.

Agreed...

I was thinking along these lines years ago but when all is said and done and after a few $$Grand$$ to do everything you've still got a narrow vehicle that, although being a good project, isn't quite what you could have got by simply buying a bigger truck...

As it stands I've sunk about $5,000 into my truck with various and assorted upgrades, repairs, and patching things together from various and assorted other vehicles...and although I've loved every minute of working on my Ranger if I had that money to spend again I'd probably just add a few grand to it and buy a completed, fully working...Ferrari...