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Wheelbase:

RCSB: 117.5 in
RCLB: 131.5 in
ECSB:131.5 in
ECLB: 155.5 in
CCLB: 159.5 in

What about CCSB ????
Crew cab long bed wheelbase is 168.5" , I have one of those long a$$ trucks and that's what it says on the SPID label in the glovebox.
 

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Not sure if anybody else chimed in on this, I didn't feel like reading through all 14 pages.

"1500/2500s used a semi-floating rear axle and 3500s used a full-floating axle."

Any 1500 HD (F44) or 2500 LD truck with a 14-bolt and 6-lug axles was semi float. Some 8-lug, 8600lb GVW 2500 trucks had semi-floating axles, many (I would guess most) had full-floating axles. I've seen two completely identical K2500s from the same year with the same options, engine, everything, but one will have a SF one a FF. Mine happens to be a SF (see sig, it's an 8-lug, 8600lb K2500).

I don't know whether this was something you could order from the factory, or just whatever GM decided to throw in there. Seems strange to me.
Yes my '90 model R2500 Suburban (square body trucks from 88-91 got R/V designations instead of the C/K) was an 8600#gvwr truck and it had all the towing package, but it had the 14 bolt semi floating axle with 4.10 gears. I have seen 400 series 2500 Burbs with both types of 14 bolt axles, SF and FF.
 

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The 3500 HD crew cab is pretty rare, isn't it? I know a guy that found one with a work bed on it, in a yard in the DFW. Handles are gone though....
 

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Very not common, that's for sure.

I once entertained buying one that had a 12' flatbed on it. Talk about a looooooooong truck.

Richard
The yard this is at, is Apache Wrecking Yard, just south of Fort Worth. They have at least one more crew cab in there, and a bunch of other 400s too. Many square body trucks and a couple Burbs but most of the squares are pretty much stripped.
 
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