bumper bracket/lmc doors
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bumper bracket/lmc doors
Looking at ordering a bunch of stuff tonight on lmc to get free shipping. We are looking at buying bumpers and there are two different sizes of bumpers bracket holes. I have a 1976 f15p custom. How do I know what I have. Also anyone ever bought replacement doors on lmc? Anygood?
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If a Styleside rear bumper, which type? Step bumper or contoured bumper?
Be aware that the repro bumpers are made in China. If chrome, you have to keep them waxed, otherwise they begin to pit within a short time.
As original: Ford bumpers have 2 coats of copper, 1 coat of chrome. Chinese do not use any copper, plate 1 coat of chrome directly onto bare steel.
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Tip: With any bumper, I like to paint the back side with either POR-15 or gloss black Rustoleum to seal the surface. Plus the slick surface has low surface friction which makes hosing off mud/dirt/grit is really easy.
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The rear bumper and its brackets are specific to 1973/79 F100/250's with 37 1/2" width between the inner rear frame rails behind the cab. I seem to recall that the LMC catalog calls these rails 38."
Different rear bumper/brackets: 33 1/2" width between the inner rear frame rails behind the cab: 1973/79 F250 4WD & F350.
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There's no such thing as either one of these sizes. LMC's catalogs are unreliable, have errors and omissions.
Width between the inner rear frame rails behind the cab is either 33 1/2" or 37 1/2." Since you have an F150, it's 37 1/2."
1973/79 Ford Light Truck Parts Catalog: D3TZ-17906-A .. Chrome Rear Bumper-Use with 37 1/2" frame rails. 99 = Styleside pickup.
Width between the inner rear frame rails behind the cab is either 33 1/2" or 37 1/2." Since you have an F150, it's 37 1/2."
1973/79 Ford Light Truck Parts Catalog: D3TZ-17906-A .. Chrome Rear Bumper-Use with 37 1/2" frame rails. 99 = Styleside pickup.
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