I Bought an OEM Rally Bar & Tubular Bumper - Advice Needed

[RangerFan2037]

I bought an original rally bar & tubular rear bumper. These are pretty hard to find.
The guy I bought them from said he was going to scrap tomorrow if no one bought them.

Any advice on the rear bumper? I assume I'll be able to mount it without any modification.

Also, the parts are aluminum, I bought an original rally bar last week that is made of steel.
Did ford produce both aluminum and steel rally bars?

 

[Ranger850]

Looks just like yours, almost. The bumpers have a slight difference. Yours has 3 pillars and the pic only has two. And the one in the picture doesn't seem to have a bend like yours do. I don't know how much the varied through the years, of at all.

 

[Snoranger]

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Looks just like yours, almost. The bumpers have a slight difference. Yours has 3 pillars and the pic only has two. And the one in the picture doesn't seem to have a bend like yours do. I don't know how much the varied through the years, of at all.

My 89 STX had the bend at the ends of the bumper... Maybe it was a 1st gen/ 2nd gen thing.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Can't see the mount on the bumper in the photo, but it probably bolts right on. The bed bar was obviously just for looks, and to hold a set of lights. Be glad it's aluminum. If it was steel, it would probably be all rusted out.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Make sure that any steel is isolated from the aluminum. Otherwise galvanic corrosion occurs. I have a aluminum body Grumman box van from 1980 and where the 2 metals touched it has holes.

 

[RangerFan2037]

Here’s a render of how I would like the truck to look.