916 Bumber - Install Hints, Templates?, Picked up with rusted mounts |
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916 Bumber - Install Hints, Templates?, Picked up with rusted mounts |
Larouex |
Dec 2 2008, 01:02 PM
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Larouex Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 22-July 08 From: Larouex@gmail.com Member No.: 9,339 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Today I scored front and back 916 bumbers. They had been sitting for a while and the steel mounting brackets (worked into the mold w/ fiberglass) are rusted out.
Looking for any advice on mounting or templates. Anyone else mounted these? TIA, Larry |
rick 918-S |
Dec 2 2008, 11:27 PM
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Hey nice rack! -Celette Group: Members Posts: 20,503 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Now in Superior WI Member No.: 43 Region Association: Northstar Region |
I bought my front 916 bumper used. I had to replace one of my front brackets due to rust. Copy the exsisting bracket out of heavy poster board. Use it for a pattern to make a new one out of 18 ga. sheet metal. Make a fixture for aligning the brackets out of 1/8" plywood long enough to bolt to both brackets. Grind the rusted one out. bolt the new bracket to the plywood then to the exsisting good bracket, then while the brackets are bolted to the plywood glass the new one in place. When your done you still need to fit the bumper to the car.
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Larouex |
Dec 3 2008, 12:38 AM
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Larouex Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 22-July 08 From: Larouex@gmail.com Member No.: 9,339 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
I bought my front 916 bumper used. I had to replace one of my front brackets due to rust. Copy the exsisting bracket out of heavy poster board. Use it for a pattern to make a new one out of 18 ga. sheet metal. Make a fixture for aligning the brackets out of 1/8" plywood long enough to bolt to both brackets. Grind the rusted one out. bolt the new bracket to the plywood then to the exsisting good bracket, then while the brackets are bolted to the plywood glass the new one in place. When your done you still need to fit the bumper to the car. In my case, both brakets on the front bumber are gone. But your technique is solid, I just need to start from the contour of the bumber inside and then trim to fit the frontwall of the car. |
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