5'-7" bed on a 2500 or 3500?

[62Blazer]

Has anybody ever seen, or heard of, a 5'-7" bed on a 2500 or 3500 from the factory? I've personally never have, and can't find any reference to that offering. Includes looking at parts sites and companies that offer bed shells, tonneaus, and such. They only list options for the 6'-4" or 8' beds. I know the 5'-7" length is the common bed length on the 1500 crewcabs.

 

[crash68]

Has anybody ever seen, or heard of, a 5'-7" bed on a 2500 or 3500 from the factory?

If there was, there would be about a 9" gap between the bed and cab.
There is no wheelbase that supports a 5.7' bed on the HD trucks.

 

[olyelr]

Nope. 5’7” bed has never been an option for the hd trucks. Even the megacabs get the 6’4” bed.

 

[Dean2]

Less bed is NOT an improvement or advantage. If you want a car buy that or an SUV. I bought a 2500 specifically to get a 8 foot bed and a crew cab. I need a truck I can load a quad in and still have room betwee n it and the tailgate for a moose and a couple of deer.

 

[GTyankee]

I have seen a 5' 7" bed on a heavy duty truck.
They usually have a Transfer Tank or something in the space right behind the cab

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[2003F350]

I've seen some MegaCabs that looked like they had a REALLY short box on them, but I've never bothered to get close enough to inspect them. Maybe its just that the elongated cab makes the 6'4" bed look really short?

But otherwise, as far as I know there isn't an HD truck that has anything shorter than a 6'4" bed from the factory. Any that do have had custom work done to them.

 

[Wirerat]

I've seen some MegaCabs that looked like they had a REALLY short box on them, but I've never bothered to get close enough to inspect them. Maybe its just that the elongated cab makes the 6'4" bed look really short?

Mega cab DRW look very short. I think it's because we are used to seeing that 8ft bed on dually's.

 

[2003F350]

Mega cab DRW look very short. I think it's because we are used to seeing that 8ft bed on dually's.

Agreed. I get the point of the Mega cab, but I couldn't personally own one - they just look odd to me, even though they've been around forever.

 

[62Blazer]

Less bed is NOT an improvement or advantage. If you want a car buy that or an SUV. I bought a 2500 specifically to get a 8 foot bed and a crew cab. I need a truck I can load a quad in and still have room betwee n it and the tailgate for a moose and a couple of deer.

Should have stated this in my original post. Somebody on another forum is claiming that 5'7" beds were available on 2500 series trucks, and that he has personally seen them and his buddy owns one. The original questions comes from somebody asking if 1500 beds were interchangeable with 2500 beds, and how the discussion about bed length came about.

 

[mtnrider]

Should have stated this in my original post. Somebody on another forum is claiming that 5'7" beds were available on 2500 series trucks, and that he has personally seen them and his buddy owns one. The original questions comes from somebody asking if 1500 beds were interchangeable with 2500 beds, and how the discussion about bed length came about.

No, the HD trucks have never had a 5'7" bed. Even the Mega dually is a 6' 4", it just looks short on a dually.

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[nlambert182]

Agreed. That bed was never an option. Tell him to go measure his buddy's bed. I'd bet it's a 6'4" bed.

 

[olyelr]

Should have stated this in my original post. Somebody on another forum is claiming that 5'7" beds were available on 2500 series trucks, and that he has personally seen them and his buddy owns one. The original questions comes from somebody asking if 1500 beds were interchangeable with 2500 beds, and how the discussion about bed length came about.

Hes wrong. Unless it was custom made at an aftermarket shop/garage.

 

[crash68]

Somebody on another forum is claiming that 5'7" beds were available on 2500 series trucks,

Ask to see a picture of the driver's side of the bed. The fuel filler door on the 5.7' bed is almost at the front edge of the bed, on the 6.4' bed the filler door is about 12" from the front edge of the bed. It's easy to spot the difference.

 

[62Blazer]

The post was on Facebook.....of course now I can't find that post anyway (and why I dislike Facebook for technical discussions....you see the post and go back 30 minutes later and can't find it). I even had notifications that it was a post I was following, but those are gone also.
Asked the question on here just to make sure I wasn't going crazy or it was something I had missed. Stuff like this just bugs me and spent more time than I should have researching it. Looked at a bunch of sites such as Kelly Blue Book and parts sites where you enter vehicles specs or options and none of them ever showed a 2500 with a 5'-7" option (which I was 99.9% sure was the case before hand).
That also proves that just because it's on the 'net, it doesn't mean it's true! So much bad or incorrect information that people give out.....

 

[olyelr]

The post was on Facebook.....of course now I can't find that post anyway (and why I dislike Facebook for technical discussions....you see the post and go back 30 minutes later and can't find it). I even had notifications that it was a post I was following, but those are gone also.
Asked the question on here just to make sure I wasn't going crazy or it was something I had missed. Stuff like this just bugs me and spent more time than I should have researching it. Looked at a bunch of sites such as Kelly Blue Book and parts sites where you enter vehicles specs or options and none of them ever showed a 2500 with a 5'-7" option (which I was 99.9% sure was the case before hand).
That also proves that just because it's on the 'net, it doesn't mean it's true! So much bad or incorrect information that people give out.....

Its certainly possible someone custom made one…no different than the megacab longbed trucks out there…they were never produced by the manufacturer, but people have made them.

 

[62Blazer]

Its certainly possible someone custom made one…no different than the megacab longbed trucks out there…they were never produced by the manufacturer, but people have made them.

Agree, but the person claimed to have personally seen several including previously owning one and a buddy currently owning one....seems like they claimed to have seen a lot of something that would be very rare.
Used to work with a guy that owned a crew cab (true 4 door) '90s Chevy 1500 that was never a factory option. He claimed it was a regular factory truck because his dad bought it new from a Chevy dealership. It was obviously a custom conversion but he refused to believe that. It even had the conversion company decal on the back tailgate and a non-factory sticker in the door jam with details about it.

 

[olyelr]

Agree, but the person claimed to have personally seen several including previously owning one and a buddy currently owning one....seems like they claimed to have seen a lot of something that would be very rare.
Used to work with a guy that owned a crew cab (true 4 door) '90s Chevy 1500 that was never a factory option. He claimed it was a regular factory truck because his dad bought it new from a Chevy dealership. It was obviously a custom conversion but he refused to believe that. It even had the conversion company decal on the back tailgate and a non-factory sticker in the door jam with details about it.

Was it a shortbed? My buddy had one of the last model years of that truck (early 90’s i think) 1 ton 4 door longbed. What a pickup.

 

[62Blazer]

Was it a shortbed? My buddy had one of the last model years of that truck (early 90’s i think) 1 ton 4 door longbed. What a pickup.

Most fullsize Chevy's switched from the "square body with a solid front axle" over to the GMT400 style (main thing was IFS) starting in the '88 model year. The Suburbans, Blazers, and crewcab 1 tons stayed with the old body style through 1991.
My co-workers trucks was the GMT400 body style but they only offered extra cabs in the 1500's in those. They did offer a true crewcab in heavier duty 2500 and 3500 trucks, so assume they swapped one of those cabs onto a 1500 frame.

 

[Lsujker]

Most fullsize Chevy's switched from the "square body with a solid front axle" over to the GMT400 style (main thing was IFS) starting in the '88 model year. The Suburbans, Blazers, and crewcab 1 tons stayed with the old body style through 1991.
My co-workers trucks was the GMT400 body style but they only offered extra cabs in the 1500's in those. They did offer a true crewcab in heavier duty 2500 and 3500 trucks, so assume they swapped one of those cabs onto a 1500 frame.

Thats right on the crew cab. Have and had a few GMT400's. There was a company during the late 90's that swapped crewcabs on 1500. They made quite a few but still only came with a 6.5 bed. Was not till 04 I believe the GMT800 started producing 1500 crewcabs with the even shorter 5.somthing bed. Good trucks. Those Vortec G1 motors were tops!