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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 267 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 267 | the search funtion and i don''t get along yet so i will the posethe question here
remind me, is the rear bumper and the front the same one?
thanks
tom
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| | | | | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | NOPE ! ! ! ! they look alike but aren't...Joe | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 275 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 275 | Actually they are the same. When I ordered a rear bumper for my panel the Vendor said it is the same as the front so I ordered two front bumpers and both fit perfect.
38 original
48 panel
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46 in the back forty
| | | | | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | Ok, I guess I was wrong. I was always told they were different, but then I own a 1ton Panel/Bus...Joe | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,185 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,185 | Mine are very different because it has either an incorrect or an optional heavy duty bumper from a big bolt on the rear. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | 1953 panel,
Does you panel have the rear splash apron (or valance, or stone shield/guard, whatever it is called) that goes between the body and the bumper? If so, is in an evenly-spaced fit all along the bumper?
The 1947-55 panel-body 1-ton bumpers are different from the 1/2 bumpers, is there a chance you have one 1/2 ton bumper and one 1-ton bumper on your panel?
Tim | | | | | Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,516 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,516 | Over the years Ive switched front and rear bumpers around on my panel and havent seen any difference. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,185 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,185 | No Tim, it does not. Nor does it have the correct bumper brackets. (homemade by PO) I understand the correct rear brackets are not the same as the front brackets or pick up brackets. I have thrown out the rear bumper because a PO torched a hole in it for a wiring harness and welded a trailer hitch to it. He also welded homemade bumper brackets to it. Because I threw it away, I cannot post pix, but on the front cover of my owners manual for 1953 Chevrolet trucks is a bumper identical to mine. It is on a big bolt.
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,516 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,516 | Also,,The panel rear bumper brackets are all by themselves. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 267 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 267 | yea!, yea!, yea!  with 3 different panels and two having different rear bumpers and the third none at all I was convinced that the front and rear wre the same. I looked at a sub recently that had what i now know is the correct bumpers and it struck me odd at first.The rear bumper brackets are most definitly not the same thanks as always   tom
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