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I had the same thing happen to my new (then) 81 F-150.
I had just pulled off to a side road and was going slow down a grade and the back of the truck picked up and settled back down.
It was all very smooth and no damage, weird sensation.
Good thing it wasn't a modern bumper, they are like aluminum foil. Old American Steel that's the good stuff. Looks great. Glad there was no unseen damage.
Good thing it wasn't a modern bumper, they are like aluminum foil. Old American Steel that's the good stuff. Looks great. Glad there was no unseen damage.
Yep, it's made of stout stuff. No change in the fit; I rolled it in place on a dolly and it bolted right up no problem.
You'ld be lucky to get aluminum foil. Most are plastic.
Back in the eighties, '86 or so, I was rear ended. I was driving a '69 Chevy (the indiscretions of youth) and the other guy was driving a new car - a Celebrity, I think. It felt like a hard hit so I got out expecting to see a crushed rear quarter panel. Nothing. His car had body damage, but he had hit my bumper and apparently lt didn't give at all so his car took all the damage.
Those old bumpers were designed to protect the sheet metal, not to absorb energy like the new ones, and that it did.
I wish they made actual WORK trucks nowadays, cheap single cabs that had no computers other than for engine and basic emissions crap, so people didn't have to worry about breaking the bank to repair stuff like on our old stuff
I wish they made actual WORK trucks nowadays, cheap single cabs that had no computers other than for engine and basic emissions crap, so people didn't have to worry about breaking the bank to repair stuff like on our old stuff
Your not the only one. Technology is going to be the death of us all.
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That bumper looks great now.
