Gave my '80 a facelift
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Gave my '80 a facelift
While putting in the "cooler" for my power steering conversion i managed to crack the black grille on my '80...Well after looking for one locally without any success i decided to just pull the front off of my '83 parts truck and convert the '80 0ver to the '83 headlights/grille. I went ahead and started cutting some off te ginormous bumper too. I still have to cut the "wings" off of both sides though..
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The mounting holes on the buckets for the square headlights (4 bolt holes) were different than the round headlights (3 bolt holes) so i had to line them up and screw them on the front clip. I was not able to use any existing bolt holes from the round headlights. Other than that the only things i had to change were the electrical connectors on the turns signal/parking lights. (put the ones from the '80 unto the '83 headlight bezels)
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Thanks guys... today I cut the "wings" off of either end and just left the mounting bracket.....which is welded to the frame. It looks better now for sure. I also have a Warn winch bumper that i could always throw on there