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thanks. ill go take a look at mine. i see the new bracket does not have the little mounting tangs for the filler piece or even really a mounting point for the "christmas tree"
i wonder if ford will make something for the new trucks, or if the older bracket can be swapped
I don't think they will fit w/o making some mounting brackets. I have a 17 with the liners and a 24 without them. The 24 is missing mounting provisions. See the images below.
On the 17 you can see the two mounting points circled in red. Their are no provisions on my 24 for those mounting points.
Image from my 24. No mounting points on the backside of the bumper.
I wonder if the metal bracket that has the tabs will bolt up from pre-23? Looks pretty close
i was thinking the same thing. they do look like they may be interchangeable
But is it really worth it over fabbing up 4 small flat brackets? (8, I guess technically, if you count the 4 other small tabs)
Looks like $67 ish for both. Who's gonna be the GP??
I took a couple of better pics from my MY24 F350. The brackets look very similar to the ones on eBay. If I were going to do this mod I would make a bracket.
There are plastic front wheel well liner pieces that cover the end of the bumper brackets and some of the exposed bolts, which seems like a good idea to me for salt/slush coverage. No idea why these aren't standard.
Part numbers are HC3Z16E206A and HC3Z-16E207A, one for the left and one for the right. They are about $17-18 each. Inexplicably, Ford includes only two of the four plastic "Christmas tree" type clips for mounting each one. They mount to existing open holes.
Takes just a few minutes to install each one. Pics are on my 2022 F350 XLT 7.3, but I don't see why there would be any difference based on model, engine, etc. My truck has the felt front liners only.
Pics are all on the driver's side. Passenger side is a mirror image.
Glad I saw this thread. Installed them today, huge improvement. That area used to get caked with mud.
ok. i'm the guinea pig. I bought those brackets and just installed them on my '24. They bolt right up and seem to be just fine.
they do have a slightly different bend compared to the new brackets, but they don't appear to have any affect.
now i will go and order the fillers. i believe i still have screws and clips from the set I put on my '20
one thing i am seeing, is that the brackets on the '23-up trucks appear to be more recessed into the bumper. the outside edge of the bracket is not as close to the edge of the bumper as in previous years. I am gong to order the filler pieces tomorrow and see if they work
update: something has changed with the '23-up bumper. the brackets are more recessed. the old '17-'22 brackets do bolt up fine, but they are not as flush as they are on the older trucks. that being said, the filler pieces do work. however, they are not flush to the edge of the bumper.
01-27-2024, 07:37 AM
