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Hood bumper nut installation

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Hello all,

A little while back I was looking for the nut for the hood bumper on a 70 GTX. Someone on here was nice enough to send me one free of charge. An NOS one at that. I am greatful to them! My question / concern / problem is this: My NOS fender has the rectangular nut welded on to it, which is incorrect. It looks easy enough to get off, but to get the new nut on, I will need to "cut" 4 slices in the brace where the nut is located. Has anyone else done this? What did you use to make the slots / slices without distorting the metal surrounding it? Any special tool or did you make your own?

Thanks, Tom
 
Hi, I'm the one that gave you the hood bumper nut, still have two left lol.
I'd try using a Dremel tool with a small grinding wheel like in the picture to put the slots in for the tabs. You may have to grind on some scrap until you wear the wheel down to a smaller diameter. I'd also practice on some scrap sheet metal to make sure this will work first
Good luck, Ed

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Thank You beebest!!! I could not believe you actually had them. I'm working on the body now and thought I'd get at that. I didn't look at it before today and I figured they were welded in place. WRONG. Simple situation, but putting those slots in is no simple task. I was thinking of the dremel also, with the wheel. I was thinking of drilling out the ends of the slots. If I remember correctly, Dremel has a very, very fine drill bit. It has to be less than ??? 1/32" bit? I'm just asking to see if anyone else did this so that I don't have to re-invent the slot maker.

I was also thinking of taking a chisel and grinding the heck out of the end to make it fit the slot and make it like a punch to punch out the holes, but I am afraid I would distort the meal around the holes.
 
Tom,
No problem, my Dad, long gone, worked at ChryslerTwinsburg stamping plant and I found them in assorted fastener bin he had.
Let us know what you come up with.
 
Thinking about it overnight and now wishing I had a 3-D metal printer to make a punch set to punch the holes out.
 
What about drilling the four holes out? Use same diameter drill as width of tabs. Then fold tabs over and silver solder if needed.
 
If I were to drill holes as wide as the tabs, the tabs would not have any metal to clamp on to.
 
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