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Found some contour bumper brackets, get'm while you can!
I have been looking for the contour bumper brackets for the rear of my 1973 Ford F100 shortbed 4x4, they are NON EXISTENT, everyone sells the bumpers but not the brackets, everyone already bought the brackets up years ago. However, I just found these reproduction brackets on Ebay, I contacted the company to verify they will work on the 73-79 contour bumper and they responded that yes, they do fit the 1973 to 1979 Ford F series trucks with the contour bumper. They are not cheap either, as of this posting, shipped to my door, they are $190.00.... OUCH. But it's either make your own, send back the contour bumper and get a step bumper or buy these brackets. Some time's you gotta embrace the suck!
I will let everyone know it they truly do work once I receive them and try them on the truck, until then, buy at your own risk!
I believe the ebay ones are missing a piece? Thanks for the lead on the one part though. You can take some 80's/90's Bronco rear bumper brackets and mod them to work fairy easy. In case that $160 is to much. Dean Bitner bought my last spare pair and I think we was repoping them? But he has not been on FTE for quite a while now. PM me I have his phone number just in case you want to try that route? Or to maybe get the other brackets https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/member.php?u=716292
Like part # 17795
Yes but the ad states.....NOTE: These brackets only fit models with 34 inch outside to outside rear frame rail spacing, if yours measures 37 1/2 inches these will NOT fit..... my frame is the 37 1/2" frame width. So no workie for me.
I do not understand how they can not fit, as long as your contour bumper holes are for that frame width. Please explain, I could possible be have a senior moment. Lol
Ya know, I tried to figure that out as well, if you look at the pictures of the 2 sets they look the same, just one is without the outer brackets, it was always my understanding that Ford widened the frame starting in 1973, therefore if you ordered a bumper for a 73 to 79, the bolt holes, in theory, should match up. the only thing I could come up with is that the difference is in the outer brace brackets. Guess I will know when they get here!
Each flat bracket is the separate from the other (they are not tied together) so a difference in a frame width should not matter. And the out rigger support bars #17795 should not be affected by frame width either.
Now I do think the bumper is going to have to match the frame width so the mount holes line up. Or maybe I am overthinking this? Lol
Does seem as though the bumper would have holes in different locations for wide or narrow frame since bumper fits body line. Could you buy a contour bumper on the high boys or scs. That I don't know. CRS syndrome.
OK... so they are NOT for the 1973 to 1979 trucks with the 37.5 wide frames as advertised, SO.... I put the left bracket on the right side and the right on the left side, then spaced the brackets out using about 6 stacked washers to align the brackets with the bumper bolts, one hole was available on the frame, I had to drill the other two rear holes in the frame, It looks good and unless I told someone, they would never know. It was a pain for a couple brackets that cost me $197.00 and were supposed to fit! Also, the License plate light holes on the contour bumper (2 of them) only take the original Ford lights which are $17.95 each at LMC. I bought a set of universal ones at NAPA and cut off a tang to make them fit, they were only $3.99 each.
I've been keeping an eye on those eBay brackets, but they just look too different from the 73-79 OEM brackets for me to buy. These are the last set of contour rear brackets I sold (I have one set left to sell but they're not cheap) & you can see they are definitely not the same, the eBay brackets look like they're for the earlier trucks to me:
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