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Posted by: partwerks Jul 12 2010, 06:01 PM

How is the nut held in place for the bolt that holds the fog light bracket to the body?
I think someone has changed mine in the past as one uses a bolt and the other side a allen screw. Problem is if they get loose the nut in the back is not secured or tack welded in place.
Can a person take out the pop up headlights to get acces to the nut in the back to spot weld them in place?

Posted by: Tom_T Jul 12 2010, 11:17 PM

They should have the threaded nut tack welded to the backside of the body panel, but if the PO removed them, then you'll have to reach up behind the bumper & inboard of where the 2 bumper mounting bolts are located. You could re-weld the proper size up in there to make it easier in the future (they used the typical square bolt of approp. thread/diameter).

The red arrow in the pic below shows where it is on my 73 (same 70-74 & 75-76 are different).

The headlights have a welded in drain pan under them, so removing the headlights doesn't help for access to much of anything.

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Posted by: Eric_Shea Jul 13 2010, 11:10 AM

I don't believe it's tack welded. If I recall it's a square nut sandwiched between body panels for a "float" for adjustment purposes.

Could be wrong.

Posted by: RobW Jul 13 2010, 01:12 PM

If its bolted on and works OK, I'd just go back to it... then again, if there's significant rust, you may want to get in there anyway....