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Hey guys, I'm not on the 73-79 forum too much, but I had to share this. First off, it is not my listing, I just found it is all. NOS mounting kit to mount a Warn Classic witch bumper to a 73-79 ford. I was lucky enough to find an NOS kit for my 86 F250, hopefully someone will be able to snag it for their truck. I also have a used kit currently on my bumper that I will be swapping out for the 80-86 style in case anyone REALLY wants it, I would consider selling as well.
I have a warn winch bumper I took off of a 1985 F250 4x4 that I want to use on my 1974 F250. This bumper did not use adaptor brackets to mount it to the 85 truck. Could you post pictures of how the early brackets are used on the bumper? I looked at the ebay pictures and would like to make sure how they fit on the bumper.
Thanks
I'll see if I can get some pictures of my own in a while, But I'll attempt to help with what I do have currently as well.
For some reason the upload of the warm instructions isn't seeming to work, but anyways, the bracket on the left, circled in blue, is for the driver side frame rail, and the bracket on the right, highlighted in red, is for the passenger side frame rail. They bolt on, and the center of the warn bumper, the winch cradle, bolts to that. Your bumper must have brackets unless it's not a warn bumper. All of them were universal, if they didn't have mounts you couldn't bolt them up.
Unfortunately either due to slow internet or some other reason, I am only able to upload one photo at a time. This is not my truck or bumper, but it is the exact bumper I have. If you have that same bumper, that kit will work. The brackets are the same as what is still currently on my bumper. If you go with that kit, what do you plan to do with the current brackets bolted on?
That looks like the bumper I have, I personally removed it from the truck. The brackets are welded to the truck directly, there are not bolt on pieces to adapt it to the frame.
That's kind of why I am confused.
Here is the driver side
This is the NOS 80-86 kit I scored off eBay. The bolt holes circled are where it should bolt onto the winch bumper. You should have holes near where the custom mounts are. If so, you could probably just cut off the other mounts and bolt it right up.
Thanks for posting pictures, that really helps in figuring out how to move forward.
The rest of the bumper is in really good shape so my 2 options are cut it all off or just cut back enough to add brackets that will work with my frame.
Found this picture that I had saved for when I reassemble my bumper. This bumper appears to also have the 73-79 brackets. Thats probably the best one I can come up with, short of going and looking at my disassembled bumper
