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I am getting ready to bond on the nose reinforcement that goes just behind the headligts, (the on ewhere the rivets show through). What has everyone used before to bond it on? I have a structural epoxy that I have used for other things, but am concerned that it would not be flexible enough.
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Matt, check with Ecklers(or one their web site) to see what is needed. I can't remember the name of the bonding glue that is used...too many years of sniffin exhaust fumes, ya know?
Since you have your support off, could you take a pic of how it and the bonding strip looks? There is another thread here with a member that has the rivets pokin thru the body, and I'm trying to give a good idea of what the parts are, and where they go, so he, and others can see it. My hand-drawn diagram doesn't look good enough to post here...

Since you have your support off, could you take a pic of how it and the bonding strip looks? There is another thread here with a member that has the rivets pokin thru the body, and I'm trying to give a good idea of what the parts are, and where they go, so he, and others can see it. My hand-drawn diagram doesn't look good enough to post here...


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I am pretty sure its me that Joel is refering to. I'm not doing a body off so I'm still not sure how I'm going to remove the rivets. I'v been checking around and I am hearing on a scale of 1-10 removing the brace is a 10. Terrymy7T1 2006-10-30 12:15:57
I used fusor made by Lord corp. Body supply stores should have it. The gun is aroud $65.00. www.lord.com If it the support that is in front of the headlights that the bumper is attached to those rivets can be drilled out. I used pop rivets to install it along with fusor. I also did the rear headlamp support. Used the fusor there too. They have diffrent adhesives glass to glass and glass to steal. Also diffrent setup times slow and fast. Kiltime 2006-10-30 13:30:39
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Thanks for the info, I ended up using a structural aircraft adhesive that is for bonding metal to fiberglass. I am sorry I didn't get very good pictures since it is already bonded on. Mine had no bonding strip or rivets and was bonded on only. I removed it with a chisel and cutoff wheel. It was pretty easy but that was with the body off of the frame. I bought a replacement at Bloomington gold that was in pretty good shape. The picture is from the headlight opening looking in, and the illustrations are out of the paragon catalog.


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