I just bought a 2006 ECSB 2WD that needs alot of work. There is no transmission or drive shaft. Apparently according to the salvage yards its a rare truck being ext cab with the short bed. They want to know the length in order to measure the ones they have to find a match. I dont have anything to measure since the transmission is not in the truck either. Does anyone know the length or if any other truck or SUV had the same drive shaft?

 

Yeah its pretty rare, theres prob only a couple hundred thousand of these rare trucks running around.

What the **** are they smoking ??

2 wheel or 4 wheel?, we need to know.

 

Its 2wd. Im guessing they meant rare compared to a normal bed ext cab. I have no idea, the guy works at a junk yard so of course he is an parts expert, lol.

 

Does it actually have the short bed, or is it the standard bed? There are technically 3 bed lengths, but the standard length is referred to as short because of how common it is. The crew cab trucks actually have the short bed, but some weird extended cabs can have it to as a factory option, though not as common. At first glance that truck looks like a normal ECSB, but it could be the shorter version. The difference is a 5'8" vs a 6'6" bed.

 

It has the shorter bed, same as the crew cabs. Also has torsion front suspension on a 2wd which I havent seen before either.

 

I have the same cab/box configuration but on a 2009 4wd, my driveshaft is 59" long measuring from the center of the u-joints.

The wheelbase on these trucks is the same as a regular cab 8' box truck, I'd guess that the driveshafts are probably also the same.

 

yeah, it's an ECSSB! I've always loved those configurations. I'd trade my reg. ECSB for one in a heart beat, more like the layout of the original Raptors...

and yep, I beleive exact same WB as the RCLB, like mentioned above. Maybe someone with one of those could give you a hand with a measurement.