Well, I still have not made up my mind fully on what I am going to do with the car, but in the mean time, I got some more parts for the car while they were on sale this winter. So onward, until, whatever! Lol
So in this first edition of "What the **** did they do this time..." we are doing bumper brackets. So while bumper brackets? Well, If peeps remember from my stuff in the past, the car had zero parking lights, and John Deer tractor lights in place of the High beams
Mega sweet. So I bought a set of parking lights. Low and behold, one side would not fit. And why is that? The Bumper brackets were bent. So rather than replace.... they bent them back into sort of a usable shape and then when they found the nut inserts were stripped, WELDED them to the damn car! Lucky for me, it was just a few areas of Spot weld.
So out came the die grinder. Got them off and gesh….
Got the weld blasted off and put a little bit of paint in there
New bumper brackets show up and what do you know, there is an entire bracket that was just missing. I thought the bumper seemed flimsy. Gesh. So I grinded out the threads and ran the bolts from the inside out. Not the best looking, but hey, it works.
So I get the bumper on and replace the hardware they had in it with Stainless Bolts. Get it all done and step back and look at it. Those bolts dont look right. Go look at my rear bumper, yep they are flush. Damnit, their is a specific Bumper bolt. So those were ordered
Last year, since I could get the parking lights in, I go these simple LED lights. Here is what it looked like before:
So I drilled a small hole in the lower valance and moved them there. Got the parking light out and what do you know, bolted right in. Fought with some jank wiring and now.....
Functional Parking Lights and side markers.
So in this first edition of "What the **** did they do this time..." we are doing bumper brackets. So while bumper brackets? Well, If peeps remember from my stuff in the past, the car had zero parking lights, and John Deer tractor lights in place of the High beams
Mega sweet. So I bought a set of parking lights. Low and behold, one side would not fit. And why is that? The Bumper brackets were bent. So rather than replace.... they bent them back into sort of a usable shape and then when they found the nut inserts were stripped, WELDED them to the damn car! Lucky for me, it was just a few areas of Spot weld.
So out came the die grinder. Got them off and gesh….
Got the weld blasted off and put a little bit of paint in there
New bumper brackets show up and what do you know, there is an entire bracket that was just missing. I thought the bumper seemed flimsy. Gesh. So I grinded out the threads and ran the bolts from the inside out. Not the best looking, but hey, it works.
So I get the bumper on and replace the hardware they had in it with Stainless Bolts. Get it all done and step back and look at it. Those bolts dont look right. Go look at my rear bumper, yep they are flush. Damnit, their is a specific Bumper bolt. So those were ordered
Last year, since I could get the parking lights in, I go these simple LED lights. Here is what it looked like before:
So I drilled a small hole in the lower valance and moved them there. Got the parking light out and what do you know, bolted right in. Fought with some jank wiring and now.....
Functional Parking Lights and side markers.