Recent content by Mojoe9955

I just put that exact kit in my Duster. They are brite, but not too bright. It's well put together, but a little bulky with the lenght of the wiring and the protective covering, some of which I stripped off to make it a little more manageable around the connections, the rest I bundled up and...

Back to what Blue said about Dions car. Mine had the front shocks with the 3 un-threaded holes behind them. I drilled thru the frame and bolted on my new mounts. The back bumper which didn't come with mounts, was in the back seat when I got the car. The bumper and reinforcement weighed in at...

especially how it looks from the back. Now I can trim and set the the exhaust pipes to the right height.

Today I "tucked" in the back bumper, I moved in as far and as high as it would go. Again the ends are a little wild, but I'm pretty happy with it...

Thanks, good info. I got lucky setting it up as I had some some 2" angle with 1/2" holes punched every 2.5" on both sides. I cut them in even lengths and using the bumper bolts attached them to the bumper which with the plates and channels attached it turned out to be the perfect width to mount...

Montrose "Space Station # 5" I can't figure how to post the album cover or song from YouTube, maybe cause I spent to much time on Space Station #5 :p

I pulled the bottom in some to which helped a bit as well. The old bumper system including the bumper, reinforcement, shocks and hardware weighed in at 86.5 lbs. The new setup with the old bumper, fabrication and new hardware, weighs in at 31lbs, for a 54.5 lb weight loss. This coming week I'm...

Thank you, it turned out nice. The channel with the tabs came from a motorcycle cycle lift I found in my neighbors trash. It served a dual purpose to mount the modified fender braces from an old van I scrapped. Its a little wild on the ends, but all in all it looks much better from the front.

Spent a little time in the "FabShack" yesterday and came up with these new bumper brackets using scrap I had laying around.

According to the response I'm getting on this, I'm going to assume the value of these parts, outside of the bumper itself, is negligible. I'll give it another day or two and then I'm going to start hacking away on what I have not so much for appearance sake, but mostly weight savings. Thanks

I'm thinking something like that too Tom

I have a 72 Demon that needs quite a bit of rust repair on the back half but the front is pretty nice. I've been resisting swapping those pieces thinking I might "fix it up"

My filler is in very nice shape as well. I'd think if you took it out and couldn't get the bumper back far enough a gap between the bumper and valance wouldn't look right. Did you remove any of the reinforcement behind the bumper?

Finished my 74 Duster front end project, which included rebuilding the front suspension, a driveway alingment, stripping and painting the front fenders. Yesterday I put in a Toyota Headlight relay kit, which is pretty nice and very bright BTW. Today I detailed the headlight wiring, put in the...

I'm thinking of "tucking" the front bumper on my 74 Duster. I've read where removing the rubber filler and collapsing the shocks to move it back. I've also read that it doesn't move it back enough to look right and if I read the post correctly it might even make it look worse. To do anything...