Bed swap issues?

[Grit dog]

I'm serious. This is an area I know nothing about. I thought all long beds would be the same so it didn't matter what got bolted to them. I did not know chassis cabs were different. Geez, so judgemental. Lol

Apologies then, I misinterpreted your questions as not serious.
Something that helps me is to look up terminology I may not be familiar with. I do it often and incorrectly in this case assumed the same.
C&C trucks, universally across years, mfgs and product lines differ from their pickup truck counterparts in the case of 1 ton or class 3 trucks in that pickups have a profiled frame to increase frame clearance over the axle to get a lower bed floor height (and match the bodies being produced for the lighter pickup truck classes, less tooling reqd among other things). C&C trucks generally always have a straight frame and afaik all are still channel frame members not boxed or hydro formed to allow for all the different types of beds or attachments to be sort of universally fit on all trucks. Frame rail widths are also standardized. And axles generally a bit narrower as they don’t need to stuff 2 wheels outside the fender wells of a pickup. Some are similar wheelbase to a long bed pickup. But measured in cab to axle as that’s how all the accessory beds are measured. Flat beds, service bodies, dump beds etc.
Takeaway is can’t just slap a pickup bed on a C&C truck without modifications.

 

[SquareRoot]

Apologies then, I misinterpreted your questions as not serious.
Something that helps me is to look up terminology I may not be familiar with. I do it often and incorrectly in this case assumed the same.
C&C trucks, universally across years, mfgs and product lines differ from their pickup truck counterparts in the case of 1 ton or class 3 trucks in that pickups have a profiled frame to increase frame clearance over the axle to get a lower bed floor height (and match the bodies being produced for the lighter pickup truck classes, less tooling reqd among other things). C&C trucks generally always have a straight frame and afaik all are still channel frame members not boxed or hydro formed to allow for all the different types of beds or attachments to be sort of universally fit on all trucks. Frame rail widths are also standardized. And axles generally a bit narrower as they don’t need to stuff 2 wheels outside the fender wells of a pickup. Some are similar wheelbase to a long bed pickup. But measured in cab to axle as that’s how all the accessory beds are measured. Flat beds, service bodies, dump beds etc.
Takeaway is can’t just slap a pickup bed on a C&C truck without modifications.

That I did not know. Picturing it my mind , it makes sense. I learnt me sumthin today!

 

[Ricko1966]

That I did not know. Picturing it my mind , it makes sense. I learnt me sumthin today!

Uh,oh the grammar police and the spelling police are on the way.