Ford Slide Out Step

[salans7]

Straight from the light truck accessories catalog.

Ford Optional Slide Out Step

[Rembrant]

Ahh...so it attaches to the door! That's cool! It would look silly on my truck, but neat on a 4x4. Nice find.

[salans7]

I thought so too, I remember it from the 1980 accessories catalog but I don't recall ever seeing one installed on a truck. You never know what you'll find on Ebay when you spend some time searching with the right parameters.

[Gary Lewis]

That is cool!  As you, Shaun, I've seen it in the accessories catalog, but never in person.  Someone should buy it and install it.

[Steve83]

It doesn't look difficult or expensive to copy.

[Rembrant]

salans7 wrote

I thought so too, I remember it from the 1980 accessories catalog but I don't recall ever seeing one installed on a truck.

While looking through the Craigslist trucks this morning, I came across an F250 that appears to have one of these steps installed. That thing would rust apart and fall off a truck up here within a couple years...lol, so it's probably no surprise that this truck is in Washington where they stay well preserved.

https://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/cto/d/centralia-1984-ford-250/7044353872.html

[salans7]

Good eye! That definitely looks like it.

[Rembrant]

salans7 wrote

Good eye! That definitely looks like it.

I think the fact that it is obviously rusty makes it stick out like a sore thumb, but with a fresh coat of black paint it might not look so bad...at least on a black truck.

[salans7]

Looks better to me than the aluminum running board steps, even if it's rusty.

But Ford updated to a newer style tubular design in 85, so I'd be curious if 84 was the last year they were offered, or if Ford still offered them side by side until their stock was depleted?

[Gary Lewis]

salans7 wrote

Looks better to me than the aluminum running board steps, even if it's rusty.

But Ford updated to a newer style tubular design in 85, so I'd be curious if 84 was the last year they were offered, or if Ford still offered them side by side until their stock was depleted?

Shaun - Might the tubular style have been a 1986 addition?  I've added a page (Documentation/Accessories/Step), and that shows the fixed step to have a E6 prefix.  But I don't have a 1985 accessories catalog to see if somehow it shows there as well.  Do you have that catalog?

[salans7]

Nope, that was an assumption based on how similar the 85 and 86 trucks are and how there's quite a few differences between 84 and 85. But if E6 is what shows in the catalog, then maybe it was 86?

But let's also not forget that my April, 1986 frame says E7T on the side.

[Gary Lewis]

Ok, so you agree with the new page?

As for the frame, that’s still BIZARRE!

[salans7]

Looks good to me!

Here's the 86 version:

E6TZ-9920092-A

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[Gary Lewis]

Ok, so I can use that pic?

[salans7]

Sure.

As for the E7T, I'm thinking that's why my frame has round holes in place of the oblong holes in the bricknose frames.

[Gary Lewis]

That is explains the holes, but not how the frame got there.

[Gary Lewis]

Pics added to the Step page.

[Rembrant]

Another slide-out step spotted, this time in Dallas...

https://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/cto/d/fort-worth-1985-ford-f250-clean/7090584564.html

[1986F150Six]

Good eye, Cory!

[Rembrant]

1986F150Six wrote

Good eye, Cory!

All depends on how early I get out of bed David, and how much coffee I can get in me before 5am;).
That determines my level of attention to detail (in the morning).