My '78 F150 has a homemade rear step bumper on it, I want to swap the rear bumper off My '80 F150 onto My '78, as it is an original bumper. Can this be done?

 

Have you measured? If not, why not?

 

"Measure once, cut twice".....

Quote from a dyslexic and slightly hungover Norm Abram on an episode of "This Old House" circa March 1997

 

I haven't yet, been too damn hot to go out to the garage

 

The sun is coming down so git yer butt out there armed with a tape measure.

My guess, a pure guess, is that it will not bolt in. C'mon.. I challenge you to prove my guess as incorrect!!!

 

I have been out in the sun all afternoon helping a friend, My a$$ is not moving outta the house till morning! Actually what I really am in need of, is a measurement of a stock bumper,so I can compare the measurements with the one on My '80.

 

The bumper outer curves will fit the bed curve, as far as direct bolt on maybe with a little modifying?

But will look a little different if you go with anything newer like a 85 or up.

Any bumper with the black plastic bumper top piece will look a little odd....but it will fit.

If your 80 bunper is a steel step OEM style, you should be ok.

 

Yes, My '80 bumper is a steel step style

 

If it looks like the ones in the pic it will fit and might be a direct bolt on? I hope so, cause its hot drilling holes and making brackets and working in the shop....

FYI howdy neighbor.

 

Howdy back at ya

It does look like the ones in the pic, except mine is not chrome

 

Dang cause we all know chrome makes it go faster due to chromes drag coefficient #'s. lol

Silver is just as good and easy to touch up and not rust and flake off.

 

Here is the one on my '80 that I wanna use on my '78

 

The only issue might be the curved part right around the bed ? Make a cardboard template of the top curve and see if it will fit, before you take it off of there.

 

I'll do that. If the guy I bought it from comes up with the original one, then I won't have to do the swap.

 

To answer your question. Yes. It's a direct bolt on. The rear sections of the frame are identical to '78-'79 1/2 tons. They used the same beds from '73-'96. They just changed the quarter panels on them. Frame centers and mounting holes for 1/2 tons were all the same. Aside from some trimming (and you might not even have to) it should slide right on and mount in the same holes.