anyone ever got pulled over for not having a bed?

[ZMan]

since you are a fellow ohioian i will comment on this. ohio requires mud flaps on vehicles without beds, or with flat beds. you must have turn signals, 1 brake light and 1 running light but most local municipalities require 2 running lights and 2 brake lights. the bumpers are obviously required. i hope jim corrects me if i am wrong but that is how i recall it being when i ran around without a bed. for the most part ohio allows anything that can move under its own power to drive down the road with little concern about safety........

86

back about 4 years ago my buddy went for a month without a bed on his truck while he was doing bodywork to it. Never got a second glance, and hes pretty good at getting pulled over. Even took it to the racetrack while it was off, lol.

 

[chittybangbang]

believe me i a well aware. you obliviously have not been on offroadohio.com before..... i am friends with many of them but most of them have a odd resemblance to a member of the show sanford and sons...... or the dukes of hazzard, take your pick. you my friend are on the fringe of hillbilly heaven in aurora, 6 inch stacks on gas trucks and fuel pumps on diesel trucks turned up so high its amazing they dont have atleast one dead cyl. from a hole being melted through the top of the piston.

86

I've been fighting the urge to put stacks on the ranger

 

[86ford]

I've been fighting the urge to put stacks on the ranger

ya going to inject the pipes with some sort of motor oil too so it appears to be an oil burner on top of it?

Zman you reside in a mecca for wanna be hicks and even some real ones.

86

 

[chittybangbang]

ya going to inject the pipes with some sort of motor oil too so it appears to be an oil burner on top of it?

Zman you reside in a mecca for wanna be hicks and even some real ones.

86

IDK.Medina county...all I can think of is children of the corn
PS.sorry to jack the thread

 

[Simple_serf]

Dude...It's Ohio...

You could take the bed off, take the cab off, set a milk crate on a board between the frame and drive it all day like that (so long as it passes emissions...)...

I love Ohio...Mweidner lives out there, and whenever he comes up this way to NY, he gets busted for just about everything... and whenever I go out to ohio I see more broken cars that defy logic, and more accidents, and cars on fire, than I have ever seen in NY.

No joke...this is one reason why I have debated moving there. no more NYS inspection.

I'm pretty sure that if you could get the balance right, they would let you drive on 3 wheels out there.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I had a friend in Germany that had his car impounded and recycled because of a rust hole.

But something you may not have considered--your frame is not very stiff. It relies on the body for that. I would not drive it much without a bed. A chassis-cab is a different vehicle than a pickup. Driving a pickup without a bed could work things loose because it isn't designed with stand alone rigidity.

Um, how does the bed add to the ridgity of anything? Its seperate from the cab and just bolts to the frame. There is no difference in stiffiness between having a bed and not having one.

later,
Dustin

 

[dogboy]

The bed mounts in two place at the front, and two places in the rear. Those four points, connected together, give the frame more strenght. You know that thing called frame flex? That is the frame flexing, which is also twisting the bed at the same time. Imagine getting rid of the bed and how much more it would then be able to twist the frame becuase it would no longer need to twist the bed as well.

Taking the bed off DOES effect rigidity of the frame.

 

[Ozwynn]

yeah there is a club in Colorado that use 1 ton trucks and take the beds off for conquering trails. more flex

 

[rusty ol ranger]

My mistake then.

later,
Dustin

 

[4x4mike2004]

I work for a chevy dealership, and we sell tons of cab chassis trucks. They are a regular 3/4 or 1 ton frame, the only difference is where the exhaust ends.

Also found out you could tear the bed in half with a lose bolt and lots of flex.

 

[JohnnyO]

for the most part ohio allows anything that can move under its own power to drive down the road with little concern about safety.......

I live in Western PA, we get quite a chuckle out of what comes over the border from OH that is apparently road-legal there.
Shoot, I thought we hit the jackpot about 20 years ago when they went to once-a-year inspections from the every six months that it used to be.

 

[Jaymz9350]

I live in Western PA, we get quite a chuckle out of what comes over the border from OH that is apparently road-legal there.
Shoot, I thought we hit the jackpot about 20 years ago when they went to once-a-year inspections from the every six months that it used to be.

Yeah I guarantee at least 50% of the vehicles in my little hick ass town would be pulled off the road in states like PA. But like was stated unless your in a county with E-check (which none close to here are) all you need is a title and it's drivable.

 

[chittybangbang]

Yeah I guarantee at least 50% of the vehicles in my little hick ass town would be pulled off the road in states like PA. But like was stated unless your in a county with E-check (which none close to here are) all you need is a title and it's drivable.

Its the inner city vehicles you got to stay away from.

 

[mspeessen]

i live in montgomery county . . . where dayton is, and I have owned 4 cars . . .and i will tell you. . . . it is ENTIRELY on the car. we son't have an e check here . . . . . . .so i dont worry too much about that. when I had my '90 F150, no problems ever . . whatsoever. when i had my '86 F150, the license plate lights didnt work so i got pulled over once . . . put a small bulb bare in the hole and never heard from hem again. the whole time I had my '86 the front license plate was in the windshield and a word was never said about it . . . .then i bought an '87 mercedes benz 190e . . . . i small red fast sports car. cops tore me up for everything . . .license plate in the windshield, one brake light out . . loud exhaust (with the whole stock system on it mind you) too dark of window tint (florida standard) and even one who said i didn't have enough tread on the tires I bought not more than two months before . . he inspected them and then let me go. I just got an 85 ranger and now i dont get a second glance from police officers. i think a lot of it depends on the officer too.

 

[Rammunition360]

well ive been driving it with no mudflaps and the taillights ziptied to the bumper and havent got pulled yet