Flareside rear tag

[Gary Lewis]

What's the number?  Perhaps I can track down what it is.

[Dyn Blin]

Look what I found today at the Pick & Pull.. from an 81 Flareside.

I don't have the resources to fabricate using this as a model, and this example is rough, but if anyone can use it to help make a facsimile, I'll be your first customer.

If anyone can use it, PM me and I'll get it out in the post Monday.

[Gary Lewis]

Neat find and a good offer. 👍

[Dyn Blin]

Hi Pete, when you get a chance, will you post a pic and part #?

[Rembrant]

I'd like to see this light mounted tag bracket as well. My '84 has the original plate bracket, but I was thinking of removing it...I just didn't know where to put the plate. I'm currently driving around with the plate in the glovebox...lol.

[PetesPonies]

This is a light made by the same company that supplied Ford. And this number is the style that was used before the common numbers people think of by Ford. They didn't used to start with a letter representing a decade.

[Gary Lewis]

Looks like "6C3? 13405-AA"  The 13405-AA is proper, but the 6 is strange.  Might it be a "G"?  If so, that would be the 2000 decade, which odd.  Hmmmm.

[PetesPonies]

Look at the numbers from the '50s Gary, before things were C1AE, for example.Another example, this is a head for an early T-Bird: EAN6052A. So I wondered if this light was using a number from the 50s or even earlier?? Just a thought. The light is plastic, so not that old. Thats why having FOMOCO on it is strange  :) I can't think of the light supplier right now . .their name starts with G . . .someone here will know.

[Gary Lewis]

EAN 6052-A:  




But, I don't know what to make of the numbers on that light.  

[PetesPonies]

Yeah that was just a for example, because some poeple don't realize there was an earlier numbering system. yeah I have no idea about those numbers either? And FOMOCO was dropped off parts at some point, don't remember that either now  :( But it was a heck of a long time ago, so seeing it on a plastic light is weird  :)

[Dyn Blin]

I like it-It's simple, functional and no worry about a dedicated light for the plate illumination in the position below the bumper.

[PetesPonies]

It's the way all Flaresides were done in previous bodystyles.

[myrl883]

The "6C3*" prefix is 2006 Super Duty. That light is from a cab and chassis truck, F350-F650.

[myrl883]

Beginning in 2000, Ford changed the meaning of part number prefixes.
Now, the first digit is the model year (corresponding to the 10th digit of a VIN), the second and third digits represent the vehicle model line, and the fourth digit is now always the letter Z to signify a service part.
This rule applies to part numbers, NOT engineering numbers.

Anyone confused?? lol

[Ray Cecil]

myrl883 wrote

Anyone confused?? lol

Thoroughly confused, yes.

[Gary Lewis]

I don't think I'm confused.  More curious.

So, if the first digit is the model year code then it uses this table?




But, help me understand the "vehicle model line".  Previous to that change the first character of the part number followed this table for the 3rd digit, with "T" being light truck and "E" being the vans.  So what table do they now use?

[myrl883]

You're correct on the year designation.  Model designation is now two digits.
C3 is Super Duty
R3 is old Ranger
C2 is Econoline
K4 is Transit
L1 is F150...
CK4Z would be a 2012 Transit, for example.

I'll see if I can find a table that I can paste on here while I'm at work today.

[Test User (Gary)]

That would be helpful.  And, that might be the impetus for me to create a page on how to decode part numbers.  I could have two tabs, one for up through 1999 and one for after.

[reamer]

I do make the correct one now...
Sorry Pete, that's not "correct" for the 80's series