[pne123]

Does anybody know what years the rear bumbers are interchangable? I knot the 94-96 are the same. they changed in 97. Do not know if they were changed again after that or left that bolt pattern. I am looking for a rear bumper and the reunel for off a 97 (from jasonb after he got rear ended) does not mount to my 95 1500 ram.
any help would be appreiciated.

thanks
perry

 

[pne123]

ok, someone must have tried swapping rear bumpers from different year trucks. I am after this info is because I am going to make a rear bumper for my 95 truck and I have a friend w/ a 99 truck. The bolt patterns are the same I was going to make to and send him one. He can not go measure his own truck cuz he is not mech. inclined and i would not trust him to measure even the right bolts.

 

[pne123]

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[JasonB]

That bumper does not fit? I did not think anything changed before 98. What about drilling new holes in the frame rails to match the bumper mounts?

 

[pne123]

nope.
remember i told you about it when we went to hollister. There was someone there (maybe fritz) that said dodge changed the hole in 97 but changed them back in 98.
I guess i can crawl a truck in the grocery store parking lot w/ my calipers

if you want to check out a rendering of the bumper I am going to build,

go to:

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