Installing 1985 turn signals to an 81 Silverado (vertical style) grille?

[Logbed]

I have a spare 1981 grille that I might try to my 1985 silverado. Have you ever somehow mounted the under-grille turn signals to early 80's style "vertical-style" grilles that are supposed to have the blinkers in the bumper?

 

[mxer147]

I have an 83 Frankenstein with 82 bumper which I am gonna install the 82 grill with 83 head lights/ turn signals. The 82 bumper turn lights will be fog lights. At my slow pace, probably won’t be until next year before I get to it so not sure if there are any gotchas. I would think as long as you have the right light bezels, it should bolt up. If I don’t like the look, I’ll use one of the other two grill setups I have 83 and 85.

 

[TotalyHucked]

Depends on how the backside of those grilles is shaped, if the light can sit nicely in it or not. I haven't seen an '81/82 done that way but here's a picture of the backside of my current '85-up grille. It's a base model grille for a single headlight truck that would've had the large parking lamps under the headlights, someone before me made their own mounts for the '85-up inboard parking lights. Looks like they just took some random plastic for the upper and ran self tappers in and then glued on the lower tab mount. Idk who or when they did it, a buddy got it on a truck he traded for and I traded him a Silverado grille for this one

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Once installed, you can't tell it's not made that way. I've had this one in the truck for ~3yrs and probably 30-40k miles and it's still holding strong

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[AuroraGirl]

Depends on how the backside of those grilles is shaped, if the light can sit nicely in it or not. I haven't seen an '81/82 done that way but here's a picture of the backside of my current '85-up grille. It's a base model grille for a single headlight truck that would've had the large parking lamps under the headlights, someone before me made their own mounts for the '85-up inboard parking lights. Looks like they just took some random plastic for the upper and ran self tappers in and then glued on the lower tab mount. Idk who or when they did it, a buddy got it on a truck he traded for and I traded him a Silverado grille for this one

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Once installed, you can't tell it's not made that way. I've had this one in the truck for ~3yrs and probably 30-40k miles and it's still holding strong

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