i need to get some rear bumper brackets and would like to get a new
Rear bumper. i looked but did not see any rear bumper brackets on LMC or
NPD. any suggestions or help locating some new or used brackets would
be great!

 

What type of rear bumper ya looking at? Step? Dock? Contour?

 

i would like a step bumper.
it is a 79 F150 4x4 short box.

 

Whomever you buy the step bumper from should offer the brackets that go with them. Go back to LMC but check in the 80-96 series catalogs. They just might not list them in the Dent catalog.

Fey is a popular brand. Googling "Fey step bumper brackets" yielded lots of returns including JBG. However, another link indicates that Fey's application is universal for 67-96 Fords:

Quality Bumper: Search Results

Fey's PN is 92230.. looks like Westin also uses that number and is carried by Amazon:

Amazon.com: Westin 92230 Universal Rear Bumper Mount Kit: Automotive

'Did a specific application search at Amazon and a Fey Diamond Step black bumper and brackets goes for $205. That's the cheapest. Personally, I'd tour the wrecking yards. Around here, it'd run about $60.. tops.

 

our junkyard uses a forklift to move the trucks so they always **** up the step bumpers. shame cause there were a few nice ones that came in. The brackets are about the simplest thing ever, just a thick rectangle of steel with holes in either end. I wouldn't lose sleep over not having them.

 

Great product that I could bumper tow with in confidence.

 

thanks for the help.

 

Or you could prop the bumper in place where you want it using saw horses, etc .... whatever .... and crawl under truck and with cardboard, mock up what you want and then have it cut from some 1/4" plate and drill the holes?

 

Great idea! i can easily do that. i thought they were more complex than a straight flat
piece of steel.

 

Nope. They're just a 1/4" thick plate (for the inner brackets)... the outter brackets look a lot like the bracing for under your box's wheel well (the bumper ones are a much larger version), but the same idea and concept.

Again, nothing you couldn't fab up yourself or pull from a wrecking yard if you've got either a lot of zip-disks or a torch.

 

Well, some store boughts maybe made of thinner steel stamped with a press on a line and since it's thinner, they usually roll a lip along top and bottom sides to stiffen them. The factory mounts that were used with the "pretty contoured" style bumper were like that and when I made my '77's step bumper many many years ago, I just welded squares cut from 1/4" plate steel inside the bumper to match width of frame and drilled a pair of holes on each side to mount with and drilled stock brackets to match and used them. I've hit dumpsters a gazillion times, still solid. My hitch is seperately mounted to the frame though.

On several other trucks though, for friends, we've made bumpers or adapted J-Y sourced step bumpers and we've cut a bunch from 1/4" or even slightly thicker steel.

I like to spread the bolt holes out as there's a lot of twisting trying to shear them bolts if a hitch is mounted. Two Grade 8 - 1/2" dia. bolts at frame and two at bumper end each bracket (makes 8 total) are plenty enough.

On one where I adapted a bumper (it had a home made 4" pipe bumper on it when he bought it) , a F-250 4x4 ... a friend was loading a JD tractor / loader on a flat bed equipement trailer and he forgot to place blocks under the rear of the trailer. Tractor ran up on rear of trailer mashing down trailer rear picking up rear of truck which was in 2WD and the whole deal took off down a hill and across a pasture before the tractor came off enough to let the trailer front drop and the truck to skid and jack knife. Turned the tractor over on side, trapped my friend underneath (he was really really lucky not to catch his killing there!), bent the trailer tongue some at coupler, bent the bumper on the end where it jacked knifed ..... but absolutely no bending of my home made brackets!
Later after he mended some from bruising and cuts, we used a chain and tractor to pull bumper back to rear and my "Hi Lift" jack to jack it up some on end to get it back, my mounts still never bent. Cut and welded new coupler on trailer and made some legs that welded under trailer ramps.

Tractor was hardly scratched at all but the mount for the front end loader was bent some so that took some straightening.

 

Gee Rob, I knew you should have stopped in on your way down....

 

My 73 F100 came with a step bumper that I am going to replace with something closer to what is on the front. The bumper is in nice shape... straight, no rust. Was painted with DP90 a few years ago and it has been sitting in the auto shop at Fort Lewis Washington for the last two years. I also removed those two beefy brackets that held it on the frame. They are in real good shape too. Lots of pre-drilled holes to accommodate any configuration. If you're anywhere near Washington, make me an offer!