I took my pocket knife and scraped the paint out of one of the holes down to bare metal. The blind retainer was still too big for the hole. The label on the plastic bag that Moss sent says the retainer is 0.187 OD. Do these come in different sizes?<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1589904756651">Mike MacLean<br><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:07 AM, PaulHunt73 via Mgs</div><div><mgs@autox.team.net> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv4737224390">
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<div><font size="2">Funnily enough the Parts catalogue states blind retainers
throughout, even though I had clips fitted from underneath on both my 73
and 75. The 73 did already have the blind fixings for the 'MGB' on
the boot lid. Fitting them to a new body is obviously going to
be different to 50 years down the line and who know how many repaints, which is
why I drilled mine out beforehand. The pins on my replacement grilles are
the same size as the ones that came off.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">PaulH.</font></div>
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<div>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.</div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br><br><a ymailto="mailto:Mgs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:Mgs@autox.team.net">Mgs@autox.team.net</a><br>Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>Suggested annual donation $12.75<br><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/mgs " target="_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/mgs </a><a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/mgs/rrengineer.mike@att.net" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/mgs/rrengineer.mike@att.net</a><br> </div> </blockquote></div>