[Mgs] Grill

[Max Heim]

Hmm, well, now that you mention it, I think I scrounged up my own plastic retainers, since I didn’t buy a new grill — I was just refitting an old one after painting. And I may have had to open up the holes a little, since they had paint build-up.

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> On May 18, 2020, at 9:12 PM, Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net> wrote:
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> OK, I went out to the car to try it your way Max.  Those friction retainers are to large of a diameter to push down into the holes in the hood.  The holes in the hood are just big enough to fit the oins on the grill.  I am not in favor of drilling those holes out.  It must have worked somehow differently from the factory.  Maybe it's  a replacement grill and the pins are oversize.  Nonetheless, the blind friction retainers are too big to fit in the holes.  Back to square one.
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> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 5:14 PM, Michael MacLean via Mgs
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> Now that makes sense.  Thank you Max.  I was racking my brain trying to figure out how to force them on the pins from below. DUH!
> Mike
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>> On Monday, May 18, 2020, 4:19:45 PM PDT, Max Heim <mvheim at sonic.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> You shove the plastic retainers into the holes from above. Then stab the grill surround into them. They are not “nuts”, they are friction retainers.
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>> On May 18, 2020, at 4:09 PM, Michael MacLean via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> Has anyone installed the small grill in front of the windshield recently?  I was surprised to find mine was just dropped into position with nothing to retain the pins.  I bought the little plastic being sleeves that you slip over the pins to retain the grill that Moss sells, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to put them on.  Kind of tough from above.  I am beginning to understand why I found the grill that way.
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