1999-2007 Upgrades and Aftermarket - GeneralUpgrading or adding OEM or aftermarket equipment to your 1999-2007 Super Duty. Please confine discussion of topics in this forum to those items that are not engine-specific.
I have a 2003 F-350 SRW with bad rear fenderwell rust. It's also a little beat from rubbing a tree or two on some pretty tight logging roads. Anyway, from the doors forward the truck looks great, so I was thinking of just getting rid of the old bed and putting a flatbed on it. Nothing fancy, just a flat bed with stake pockets (I mostly haul firewood which you can't really tie down) and a back rack. I'd want something is plain-jane as possible because I could always add more tie downs, lights, etc...later. The only thing I would add right off the bat is my 60 gallon toolbox tank. I did a search for flatbeds on here and found some companies but everything seems to be a on custom basis. Isn't there anybody out there who just has a basic model that they sell? Also, I'm assuming the most economical way to get one is to pick it up yourself, so does anyone know of a manufacturer in or near New Jersey?
__________________ GENERAL SHERMAN 2003 F-350 FX4 7.3L
Vegistroke V3
Optima Red Tops
not in NJ but look at hilsboro, cmc, or just make your own they arent hard if you have basic welding skills and tapemesure. Ive made several for alot less than you can buy them. then you can get steel floor or wood floor also.
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2004 Crew Cab shortbox 4x4 lariat
4 inch exhaust soon to be 5
zoodad mod
AutoMeter Autolite II Gauges
SCT x3 programmer with spartan tunes
Real courage is found, not in the willingness to risk death, but in the willingness to stand, alone if necessary, against the ignorant and disapproving herd. — Jon Roland, 1976
usually you local trailer depot will carry a generic flatbed, thats where my dad got his from
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early 1999, 7/98, F-250 7.3L, 250,000+ miles, 4x4, triple disk torque convertor, AFE dryflo home made cold air intake, straight pipe exhaust, superchips tuner (stuck on high performance tune,because someone stole the tuner out of my truck), 4.7K mod, Glow shift gauges (pyro, boost, egt), CCV mod, 3in of lift in front, 1in in back w/ 2009 SD rims w/ 2in wheel spacers wrapped in 325/65/18 Fierce Attitude MT, aftermarket headlamps w/ LED's, ranchhand grill guard, 03' front bumper w/ fog lights, gooseneck hitch
Yeah, look in the yellow pages of the nearest decent sized town under "truck bodies". They'll probably carry a major brand such as Reading or Knapheid, as well as a local no-name fabricator.
When you talk to them, make it plain that you have a pickup, not a chassis cab. The flatbed makers make them for both pickups and chassis cabs, but they are completely different measurements.
If you want to shop to find the one closest to your dream, then click on the following link and spend a lot of time reviewing the various websites. Beds and Tow Bodies
Way down near the end of that file notice ABC = America's Body Company. Way back when I wrote that, ABC had a plant in New Jersey. But based on their website today, it looks like Nanticoke PA is the nearest to you now. ABC
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My Sierra Blanca in the sig pic was a great pickup for 11.5 years. I sold it last year. Replacement is a 2012 F-150 EcoBoost SuperCrew Lariat.
Last edited by SmokeyWren; 09-28-2009 at 09:51 PM.
no go aluminum, they make ur truck ride really rough cause they are so light. one of the guys i know that hauls cows for a living got one and he hated it so he went back to steel
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early 1999, 7/98, F-250 7.3L, 250,000+ miles, 4x4, triple disk torque convertor, AFE dryflo home made cold air intake, straight pipe exhaust, superchips tuner (stuck on high performance tune,because someone stole the tuner out of my truck), 4.7K mod, Glow shift gauges (pyro, boost, egt), CCV mod, 3in of lift in front, 1in in back w/ 2009 SD rims w/ 2in wheel spacers wrapped in 325/65/18 Fierce Attitude MT, aftermarket headlamps w/ LED's, ranchhand grill guard, 03' front bumper w/ fog lights, gooseneck hitch
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