2021 Ford E-350 4x4 Flatbed Van from Ujoint Offroad (V4 2.0) | Inside Line
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- Part truck, part van, V4 version 2.0 is one of the coolest Ford E-350’s we’ve ever come across. Built by the E-Series experts at Ujoint Offroad in Fletcher, North Carolina, this 2021 Ford Cutaway was built to do it all. From an all-aluminum bed to a massive 7.3L Godzilla V-8 under the hood, this 4x4 E-Series defies convention in every possible way. On this Inside Line, our Senior Off-Road Editor Ali Mansour catches up with Ujoint owner Chris Steuber to find out just how this one-off build came to be.
00:00 Intro
00:25 2021 Ford E-350 Cutaway
01:34 Powertrain
02:15 The original V4
02:41 The Flatbed
03:38 Front Axle & Suspension
05:02 Rear axle & Suspension
06:00 Steering
06:25 Headache rack
08:05 Tires & Wheels
09:30 Transfer Case
10:35 Rocker Guards
11:08 Front Bumper
11:36 Cab closeout
11:54 Would you build another one?
12:46 Fuel tank
13:04 Ujoint contact
13:48 How it sounds
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To start my project, I went to the dealer and ordered a $50,000 truck. Good story, bro.
More like 35k. Most people don't know that you can still order an E series
This is an amazing set up. I live in Australia and flat beds (utes) are very popular purely for versatility. The number of options is huge and it’s a great set up for 4wd touring.
Thanks so much!
If you live in Australia, why is your text not upside-down?
I wish I could get you to send me a holden ute shell to the us
I like the design on our Utes, low to the ground for easy use. Here in the USA, pickup trucks are made too high for easy in and out.
@@sam_s_ If you look in the language settings of your PC, you'll find there's an option for an Australian keyboard. ┴ɥᴉs ᴉs ʍɥɐʇ ᴉʇ looʞs lᴉʞǝ ᴉɟ I sǝʇ ᴉʇ ʇo ∩S ʞǝʎqoɐɹp˙˙
Love the look of it. It would be a cool UTV, ATV, dirt bike or motorcycle hauler.
Chris is a walking encyclopedia of the best of the best regarding these van builds ! I love the 7.3 big block, but I won't give up the subdued Lamborghini sound of my E350 6.8 V10.
I remember his first posts about this on Expo Portal like 10 years ago... always loved his design and concept. Awesome to see it come this far.
Amazing. What a dream machine. I love that covered-wagon canopy from V1, too. I'd use this to carry kayaks or my little boat out to lakes out West where I live and go camping and fishing. Absolutely love it, great work, I'll be daydreaming about this for a long time and wishing for a long lost rich uncle to leave me a fortune.
Thanks! I still have the soft top, it may get reinstalled at some point!
OK so that's super cool!!
Best looking "Tr-an" I've seen...
Beautiful, nice seeing the e350 chassis cab still used to this day
U Joint offroad is located just 20 mins from my house, those guys do amazing work!
That's awesome! Ujoint kills it every time. We are very lucky to be in the same state as they are.
After watching this, I can now say I am half-a- van fan! Badaxe rig👍
Thanks!!!
Please refrain from offensive Trans innuendos 🙁
Sickiest van ive seen👍🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Damn..... Ever since I was a late teen I thought a beast like this would be awesome. Very, VERY Cool.
Thanks!
I'm sure his friend is right next to him and very happy they dedicated the build to him that's beautiful guys never forget the good people we lose.
Amen 👍🏻
Always quality builds at Ujoint.
That is just one bad ass trail rig guys. Love that bed, again.
Thanks!
my work truck has that engine! its an absolute beast, best motor Ford has made in a long time
So sweet just growling as it goes down anywhere 😃
I've been looking around for videos of cutaway van flatbeds and off roaders for a while, thanks! [starting video now]
Kick ass build. Loved all the Uwharrie footage.
If I had to drive a van, this would be it! 🔥🇺🇸
You would be ok with being seen inside a Tran? 🤔
Yooo, u joint van owner here, Chris is a legend
Awesome looking unit, well done!
First time I've seen an E-Series that looks good.
Compare to new transits or sprinters E vans are tanks,
Its a VUCK! Thats what we call our old 83' flatbed van.
Great looking ride
Love U-Joint builds!
This is the sickest van I’ve ever seen
Yes! Thanks!
U-Joint kills again!!! God I could only dream of owning a rig like that
👍🏻👍🏻
That’s a beautiful rig! Very interesting pivot style bed too. Would love something similar with just a hair longer cab section. But honestly that think might be perfection as is.
Thanks!
Wicked beast
That is sick! I want one!
This is super awesome to be honest 🤟🏼
Good interview. You asked all the questions the way I would have. Sweet rig too.
Thank you.
Thanks for doing this video. U-Joint deserves the it.
Thanks!
Love it !👏🏻👏🏻
I love it! Dream rig.
I thought he was gonna say Powerstroke and he whipped out the Godzilla! Hell yeah, that thing is sick nasty 🤘
Edit: And it's got King Shocks 😍
👊🏻👊🏻
So awesome 👏🏻
Nice i made my 2016 e450 it was originally a box truck for FedEx into an ac cab 16ft box dumptruck. The v10 has all the torque.
Great video gave me a lot of ideas
I would put a truck camper on the back and overland this beautiful country from Virginia to California and Alaska to Florida.
If you check out their page, you'll see that that's how it was originally built. He ended up pulling off the camper on the back and making it into a trailer. You can check out that here: czcams.com/video/JLlXETOouRQ/video.html
So, you'd turn it back into a "van"?
That's almost as stupid as buying a jeep truck and then putting a camper shell on it, what's the purpose? Like some else pointed out your essentially turing it back in a van at that point. Lame.
Yeah the roofers got a point
I was thinking the same thing a camper on that thing would be rad, with the approach and departure angles you could get anywhere
Awesome platform 👍
OK thanks so much 🙏
The u joint kits are nice too work with I installed one it was super nice
Totally awesome
Monster Vuck!
This is awesome
Great job
FORD BEAST 👍😉
Thats cool !!!
Makes sense, for those of us not dripping in cash the used E series cab & chassis are much cheaper than used F series…. I’m actually getting ready to start a build with a used cab & chassis to make a DIY RV/self propelled THOW….
Awesome 😎
Sick ass build
Awesome van. Is that a Dimebag sticker on the back window?
\m/ Getcha pull!
Bro I so wish I could buy this from you. I need me one of these. I'd pay what you wanted too. Just love it. Great job
RIP Dimebag
Fu-Ken cooool!!!!
7:56, DimeBag!
\m/ SDMF \m/
I want it❗️
Cool, Soo Much better than a normal truck, Ford should make this or GM
god damn this van is fuckin sick!
If you use Diablos Steel Demon blades you can easily use a circular saw to do the work now
You should build on on a kei van,I love kei vehicles so fun
The mounting brackets for my flatbed on a 98 ram 2500 broke while off-roading with a full load of firewood.
Dude that thing is bad ass, looks pretty bitchin too!!!
Haven’t seen Vanaconda running around Asheville for a while. Didn’t know there was a new version.
Vanaconda has been gone a while, sold it in 2012!
I have a 2012 cutaway with a 5.4 and also looked into swapping to the Godzilla by the time I was done its much easier to buy a new chassis and switch the supreme box over..
By a long shot
Good decision!
Noooooo don't ditch the TRITON 5.4 POWA BABY! 💪💪💪💪AMERICAN MUSCLE BRUH! You just gotta swap the cam phasers a few times, but SHES GOLDEN BABY! And then the rockers, BUT OTHER THAN THAT SUPREME POWER! 💪💪💪Well, might as well as do the oil pump while your messing with the cam phasers again, but WAHOO SCREAMIN EAGLES BABYYYY! (don't touch the spark plugs though, leave em for the next guy 😋)
My company just bought a 22 E-450 7.3 w/ 4.56 axel ratio, and even with the detuned 350 hp version the thing hauls the mail.. with a tune it would be down rite funny!
@@Smokkedandslammed 5.4 on e vans have regular plugs so not sure what you mean by not touching spark plugs
@@ansv3340 Sorry, that whole comment was a joke lol
Good good good good good good good good good good good
I'm just wishing Ujoint Offroad did Chevies cause I like the 6.6L Duramax and other engines.
That thing should pull like a tractor big block with 4.88 gear
That is the coolest fucking van I've ever seen. Wow, its perfect.
Thanks 👊🏻👊🏻
Unimog 404S had all this in 1952. I run an OM606 with 300HP in it. Costs $5.000 .
Unimogs in the US are awesome but expensive.
Unimogs start at 200K , dollars and those that built in 70ties,
This should be a thing.
Needs a BANKS rear diff cover!
w o w . .😧😲😮
Sick truck! It means much more when it’s just the way you want it, if it were me I’d go with a 6.7 instead but still a great ride.
That engine isn’t available in the E series but it would be a monster if it was!
Cool looking rig. Just wondering what the advantage is to a van front? Seems like a lot of work to finish the back of the cab and convert it to 4x4 when you could just order a reg cab or super cab c&c F350 already 4x4 and build from there? Not knocking it just curious what the reason is? A shorter nose is about the only benefit I could think...
The owner builds E-Series vans for a living. He also already had a good assortment of parts (including the bed) leftover from his last build.
Overall length. You can have an 8 foot bed on a van chassis that is shorter than a short bed single cab pickup. In this era of absurdly long Super Duty crew cabs with tiny beds, it feels like the only way to get a useful truck that you can parallel park in a city.
I would have guessed a van frame was narrower not wider?!
Yea, they’re wider so the engine can sit lower in the chassis, more interior space
@@ujointoffroad oh I see. Makes sense!
Would a flat bed truck be better because it essentially the same think but has much more room to work on the engine?
Well, hopefully, you don't have to work on the engine often. So, that won't be as important. I think the big difference here is that the E- Series cab makes it where you can have a longer bed, without the added length of a truck. This thing is fairly nimble on the trail.
@@DrivingLine yeah I can imagine being seated nearly over the front axle makes it pretty easy to place versus a pickup with a long hood.
@@DrivingLine that makes sense 👍🏻 thanks
No one realizes the advantage of the approach angle a van has over a truck. Inches count more than you think in some situations
This would be awesome to put a camper on the back of
It should be called a Vuck
Mechanics hate working on vans, that platform better be super important
They lie )) working on the van is easier as it has that hood inside the cab. Unlike pickup truck , where cyl 4 is unreachable
It’s vanalitious
Is it called a vauck?
How much would it cost to have a van like this made with an extra cab like with a camper on the rest
Make a camper to weld/bolt onto that flat bed!!
If you check out their page, you'll see that that's how it was originally built. He ended up pulling off the camper on the back and making it into a trailer. You can check out that here: czcams.com/video/JLlXETOouRQ/video.html
That is a totally bitchin rig!
A tire with a thicker sidewall will eliminate a lot of the wandering at highway speeds those nitto tires allow.
I haven’t experienced that
Ah yes, the vuck
whats the advantage of this over just buying a f350 without the bed?
Other than the cool factor??
He builds vans for a living. So, it's a great calling card for him.
You are a good person he would have needed some more pain pills if it was me
I had a powerlok front, the detroit is far better up front for a road truck once you remove the `softlocker`clutches
Van motors are a pain to work on. I would of made it a flip front end like a semi first. Nice rig though.
Well I clicked on the video just to find the answer to why would someone use a van instead of a truck? If something breaks in the middle of a storm you want to easily access it
Not that bad as it has hood from the inside, when you take stuff off there is lot of space up top,. Hard places to get to would be exhaust manifolds, the frame is on the way ,
How much yall think this build would be...? minus the trailer.
I build ya one but my body guy won’t fab the extension?
I’ll persuade him
@@ujointoffroad $$$$$$$$$ makes all the difference!
My ears are cringing at the thought of cutting all that aluminum for the bed with a skilsaw and table saw. Nice build.
Yea! It was horrible! 😆
@@ujointoffroad
Even with hearing protection!!!!
People on Twitter miss U-Joint…
I was never on twitter!
Needs portal axles.
Good way to get 40s under it
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