Front Clip Swaps
Yup, they will all swap. Like I said, the only issue is if you're trying to swap the earlier bumper onto a car with a shock mounted front bumper, or vice-versa. In which case you'll have to come up with a way to mount the bumper brackets, because the frame rails won't have the captured nuts in the right place.
You can see that the earlier rails have two captured nuts for the non-shock brackets, while the later cars have only 1 and it's further back. '74 is weird, from August to about November the cars had shock mount front bumpers and only the one hole. From November until end of production in July they had non-shock mount bumpers, and all 3 mounting locations, 2 for the standard brackets they used and one for the shock mount. There was some kind of production issue with the shock mount bumpers. '75 went back to the 1 mounting bolt style.
This is my '74 Duster, pre and post Demon conversion. Same car, different front clip.
Yup, they will all swap. Like I said, the only issue is if you're trying to swap the earlier bumper onto a car with a shock mounted front bumper, or vice-versa. In which case you'll have to come up with a way to mount the bumper brackets, because the frame rails won't have the captured nuts in the right place.
You can see that the earlier rails have two captured nuts for the non-shock brackets, while the later cars have only 1 and it's further back. '74 is weird, from August to about November the cars had shock mount front bumpers and only the one hole. From November until end of production in July they had non-shock mount bumpers, and all 3 mounting locations, 2 for the standard brackets they used and one for the shock mount. There was some kind of production issue with the shock mount bumpers. '75 went back to the 1 mounting bolt style.
This is my '74 Duster, pre and post Demon conversion. Same car, different front clip.
