Adding '51 Bumpers To an S-10 frame - not easy

The steel mounts for both the front and rear bumpers where nowhere near compatible with the modified rear of the '49 frame, nor the S-10 Chevrolet front clip. Some weird adapters had to be fabricated for the bumpers to be mounted correctly.

As received from Roger, and old fella I met some time ago that has a number of Shoeboxes in his yard. Pricing is excellent. These were WAAAY rusty so the first thing to do is grind off the big stuff, then do a chemical derusting as covered elsewhere on Tips and Tricks of this website.
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After grinding the big chunks off.
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Derusting bath This works !! Go to Tips and Tricks if you'd like to know how it works.
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After about 2 hours.
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This is the ANODE ( the + terminal of battery charger connection). When I lifted it out of the bath, most of the small anode junk fell off. Everything on this anode was on the bumper brackets. MAGIC !
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Washed and dried, ready for paint. ZERO rust.
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After painting, Figuring out how they reassemble. This is the rear bumper brackets.
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Front bumper brackets ready to go !!
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This is really weird. The rear bumper brackets are not parallel...... Neither appear to have been bent- they are exactly the same. Doesn't really matter, Will weld in new mounting anyway...UPDATE: ! ! HAHAHA.. hey ya'll, I did not have anything to drink before I confused myself about this picture/posting.... Those brackets are on backwards!.. swapping left to right and right to left but then since they were bent, more adjustments were required......ahahhaha
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Trying to get the bumper located on the car. Awaiting the return of the upper part of the grill from chrome shop. Costing me $475 for those three parts. Makes me angry. WAY too expensive.
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First fabricated piece for the driver's side mounting bracket.
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Driver's side bracket. Piece with notches and hole is welded/bolted to bottom of S-10 frame. Flat piece with two holes mounts to bumper bracket.
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Post fabrication modification to get room to weld the tab onto the frame.
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Passenger side front bumper bracket mount. Much simpler.
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Properly adjusted to match curvature of splash pan. Driver's side bracket welded/bolted in. I'm rather disappointed in two issues with this "aftermarket" (Chinese) bumper. In order to get the bumper to match the curvature and constant spacing on the splash pan, the ends of the bumper tilt up a few degrees, and there's a 1-1/2" gap between the bumper ends and the side of the car. But I can't do anything about that .........oh well.....I'll live with it.....By the way I learned that welding slag will ignite human hair rather easily. And it stinks a lot............
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This is the rear bumper bracket, passenger side. Requires some explanation .. the '49 Frame has welded nuts on the inside of the frame that are spaced at 4-1/4" apart. The '51 brackets have two holes (one round, one slightly slotted - as in this picture) that are spaced 5" apart. The slotted bracket hole is to mount to the "front - of the car" hole, Unfortunately, after drilling through these SPRING STEEL (whew) brackets, the bumper came out mounting 1/4" to 1/2" TOO FRIGGIN' LOW. Redrilling with a COBALT DRILL is the only way to get through these spring steel brackets.....
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Rear Bumper bracket, passenger side....In order to get these BENT brackets to work, you can see what modifications I had to make. The top of this bracket was shaved off about 3/8" because the bracket ended up against the floor of the trunk.
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Should be more clear in this pictures of how much bent the bracket is. The two holes at the bottom bolt to the frame with welded nuts on the inside.
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Adjusting bracket for passenger side rear bumper..added a couple of spacers between the bracket and frame for another 3/16" shift to the right... tell me it's not bent....
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Offset bracket-bracket to make things work on driver's side, outside mount of rear bumper...grrrrrr...
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Offset bracket-bracket on driver's side rear bumper- outside bolt...
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Offset bracket-bracket #2 on inside mount, driver's side.
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FINALLY ! ! ! 3/7/2018
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VIDEO ! ! Turn your speakers UP !! JUST finished mounting the bumpers this afternoon.... MAAAN it feels good to finally have The Judge look like it's finished ! !
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