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6.5 Crew Cab Short Bed - Does it Exist?

Dave01

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I'm interested in finding a 4WD crew cab short bed SRW. I've looked quite a bit and am not sure if they were made or not. Anyone here have one? If so were they GMC, Chevy, or both?
 
I'd be interested to see one also. I wonder if you could find one with a 5 speed as well?

Edit: just remembered, I started a thread about this on dieselplace but never actually found one. Hopefully someone here has a pic of one :)
 
They made a short bed dually a couple of years. I have only seen about three in my lifetime.
 
98+ were the OEM years for CCSB trucks.

So you're basically looking at 99, 2000, 2001. There's some back and forth about whether or not there actually were 98's built or if they were just very early 99's. Meh, i say who cares?

Not sure if they came in diesel. Probably did.

All the ones I've seen were 350 or 454 trucks.....
 
I've seen a few, just not diesel. For me it would be perfect, extended cab is OK but not really enough room for kids, especially when I have the seat comfortably back. If I can find out that some 6.5 ones exist, I'll hold out and try to find one.
 
You could always make one, just shorten the frame and chop the box or go flatbed. Shorten brake line, driveshaft (have it balanced). Bingo bango 30 hours your done.

If it is more than you know how just find a truck equipment shop in your area that is ntea rated for frame work.
 
Interesting idea Will, might look into that. Would you look for a short bed box to put on it or just shorten the one on the truck?
 
CCSB 6.5s were made, even as a dually, very rare. I was on a quest to find one then wound up buying a quadrasteer.
 
Finding the bed you need would be the best way.
Shortening he bed would be a task if you haven't delt with it before.

The last one I did for a guy was the best IMO, he ordered a service body that had toolbox doors on the outside but matched the body lines. It was a little pricey but very clean and workable. Still has me thinking about built in boxes on the outside corners of my slant back.
 
I'm pretty sure I'd just put a standard short bed on it then. Tempting to do something a bit different but the regular bed would probably be most practical.
 
Burning oil said:
CCSB 6.5s were made, even as a dually, very rare. I was on a quest to find one then wound up buying a quadrasteer.
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It would be nice to find one, and I'm not in a hurry. It can be hard to find something like this on the Craigslist search sites, and Autotrader and Cars.com don't tend to have many of the older vehicles. The specific words aren't always used in the ads so there's a lot of trucks marked "standard cab" that are actually extended or crew.
 
I do believe you can just move the spring hangars forward on a CCLB, bob the frame at the back, drop a 7 foot box on 'er, shorten the driveshaft, a couple lines/cables and call it a day.

Don't quote me on that though, haven't done it myself.

I've done a quick google for a CCSB 6.5 and nary a one turns up. Lots of 454 and 350's though.

Personally, I'd just go up a couple years and snag a clean CCSB DMax.
 
This may sound like too much but why not start with an extended cab long bed truck, get a junk yard crew cab and a short bed and put that on the extended cab long bed truck frame. Sell the extended cab and long bed to offset the cost.

This was just a thought I had. I wouldn't even know if the frames are the same length between the eclb and the ccsb. Maybe some mounts and crossmember would need to be repositioned.
 
Jorge, from some basic specs I've looked at I don't think they are the same. Plus, from what the guys here are saying a frame shortening is really easy on these trucks. I'd say any time you don't have to remove and replace a cab you've saved yourself a lot of work!
 
To shorten the frame you unbolt the cab mounts and jack it up a hair USUALLY. Depending on the situation I have had to yank the cab, but for 2' coming out of a crew cab I think you would be ok. I don't remember details on any of the frames, but if you can roll the suspension foreword like GreatWhite is saying that is the best option. Maybe just go 4 link with airbags. Then chop the rear off . Same amount of work if not less with a much better ride empty, towing or loaded.
 
When I was thinking about it I research pretty hard. The link GW put up is what you'll have to do or very simular.
There was a suburban in town that the guy converted the back to a bed area. Looked pretty good.
 
Wow, that dually is clean!

On the Suburban you saw, my friend said those are called "Suburbalanche". That's another way to go with it, I assume the bed is then about 4 ft. long?
 
By the late 90's 6.5L's had their rep as failure prone. So either people loved them or hated them which cut sales I'm sure. I had never seen a CCSB 6.5L until that ad but I'm sure it was an option and I have a feeling toward the end of their run most GM dealers didnt keep many 6.5's on their lot.
 
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