Front clip swap?

[Austin]

What all is needed to do 'the swap'? (92 + front end)

-Fenders
-grill
-headlights
-hood

Any internal pieces?

 

[Fordzilla80]

IIRC, you'll also need the radiator support, cowl panel, and you'll have to add a wire for the bottom turn signal or whatever the hell the third light is for. On the 92-96, the bottom of the fender by the cab bolts to a tab that sticks down from the cab. The 1980-1991 cab/fenders don't have this tab. I don't remember if you can bend this tab on the fender up or make a special bracket.

I'll probably think of more later.

 

[Fellro]

90 to 92 uses the same cowl, just fenders, rad support and the like to swap. Pretty much firewall forward...

 

[FordF-SuperDuty]

Keep it real, if you wanted a gen. 9 you should of bought one.

 

[Ridgerunner]

What all is needed to do 'the swap'? (92 + front end)

-Fenders
-grill
-headlights
-hood

Any internal pieces?

Why???? I'm keeping mine the way it is except for the hood.

 

[1970Custom]

Keep it real, if you wanted a gen. 9 you should of bought one.

Why, when you can make the truck newer without all the complicated electronics it's a win win, besides I can't blame him for wanting to get rid of that ugly brick of a front clip, ugliest of the 80-97s IMHO...


Or, what you do is combine all three to have the best of everything...

Something like this...

 

[Austin]

Why, when you can make the truck newer without all the complicated electronics it's a win win, besides I can't blame him for wanting to get rid of that ugly brick of a front clip, ugliest of the 80-97s IMHO...

Thanks, now I don't have to type all of that out!

 

[LEB Ben]

Thanks, now I don't have to type all of that out!

92-97>80-91.

 

[flareside_thunder]

The 87-91 looks good on some trucks depending how they're setup but I like the Gen 9 fronts as well..........just because you can get more aftermarket for it.

 

[Fordzilla80]

92-97>80-91.

Nope.

73-79 > 80-2010

 

[LEB Ben]

Nope.

73-79 > 80-2010

Well I can agree with that. But I figured that was a given and everybody else was just playing for second place.

 

[Fordzilla80]

lol.

I'm still proud of my third place F100 though.

She's the last of the Ranger trim levels.

 

[Austin]

Nope.

73-79 > 80-2010

Yea, but the 92-7 is a close second!

 

[crzybil87]

Id say dont do the swap, itd be cool to say you did it but, theres too much gen 9's running around... but thats my opinion

 

[5.0Flareside]

Nope.

73-79 > 80-2010

FALSE!!!!

92-96 > 73-79 > 80-86 >87-91
^^^^^^^^^ but its close....

 

[73F100Shortbed]

FALSE!!!!

92-96 > 73-79 > 80-86 >87-91
^^^^^^^^^ but its close....

No sorry. Even non-running 73-79 > 92-96

 

[5.0Flareside]

well like i said. its so close its hard for me to say... but 78-79 is much better than 73-77 and that brings my overall liking of the 6th gens down... so that allows the 9th gens to beat em...



but on Austins idea.... dont do it... the F-Superduty is a rare truck... dont ruin it by doing a clip swap...

 

[LEB Ben]

^^^There's that word 'rare' again. Was a time, those were all you'd see at a government/school building. Not many things are rare in the truck world, and it's not like changing the front clip will impact the value pf the truck any.

 

[73F100Shortbed]

I could possibly sell you all the parts you need Austin. Just gotta see what happens to the truck first.

 

[5.0Flareside]

^^^There's that word 'rare' again. Was a time, those were all you'd see at a government/school building. Not many things are rare in the truck world, and it's not like changing the front clip will impact the value pf the truck any.

ok fine... its a "not common" truck...