FORD TWIN I BEAM ??

You can replace inner and outer front wheel bearings and races for both sides for $40.00 for quality bearings.
If kept serviced they will last many many years. They can be changed on the side of the road with no special tools. A 4x4 socket is helpful but not necessary.
Price wheel bearings for a new half ton 4x4 then see about getting them replaced. Then see about servicing them.
Then move on to the axles and cv joints which are similar to a foreign piece of front wheel drive car.

Thanks for "most" of the replies, yet no one answered WHEN the TIB went away 

1999 First year of Solid Front End FWD F250. Believe was 2001 or 2002 when Coil Front returned and the Twin I went away in F150 and F250 2WD

Ford used the twin I beams from 1965 until 2016 on F250 & 350 2wd. 

In 1996 the F-150's went to a more conventional lower A-arm with a ball joint that wore out. They did this to position the engine lower as I remember.

 He had his henchmen murder striking workers DUDE  !!

  I assume your talking the hunger march? Bennet had a lot of influence over Ford so much so his family didn't approve and when Henry died one of the first things they did was fire Bennet. So how much under Fords thumb he was isn't clear. Henry Ford did do a number of good things for his employees. As far as the hunger march it wasn't as simple as Fords security murdering people, I have doubts about how accurate wikpedia and the history channel for that matter but if you type in Ford hunger march it does show quite a lot was going on at the time.

Edited by Dorix - 22 Jun 2022 at 7:07pm

Ray54 wrote: You need one with the TIB Freebee. You would not spill so much beer when you chug down the railroad tracks to get to the blocked crossing.  Ford had a commercial back when they where new driving on the rails with a big star holding a  cup of coffee without spilling a drop.  Chevy had a non solid axle in C 60 trucks in 1960, as one is rusting away out in my junk. It drove good for a old truck, but was told real expensive to rebuild.

Back in the late 60's or early 70's I remember seeing a Ford commercial where they had a Twin-I-Beam pickup driving along railroad tracks; there was a metal bar attached to the spindle of the front wheel and a metal bar mounted on the front bumper.

There were glass bottles standing in between the railroad ties; the bar mounted on the bumper would just barely pass over the top of the bottles, and the bar mounted on the spindle would break the bottles when it dropped down between the ties.

I always wondered who got to clean up the mess

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