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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I would have to drill out the metal to get these retainers to drop in the holes and still have room for the pin, even with a friction fit.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Mike<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, May 18, 2020, 10:33:03 PM PDT, Max Heim <mvheim@sonic.net> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv3936900151"><div>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.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv3936900151yqt1440879516" id="yiv3936900151yqtfd20476"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">On May 18, 2020, at 9:12 PM, Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike@att.net> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv3936900151yqt1440879516" id="yiv3936900151yqtfd10317">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.<div id="yiv3936900151yMail_cursorElementTracker_1589861478657">Mike MacLean</div><div id="yiv3936900151yMail_cursorElementTracker_1589861488108">1969 MGB GT</div><div id="yiv3936900151yMail_cursorElementTracker_1589861500564">1960 Bugeye</div></div><div id="yiv3936900151yMail_cursorElementTracker_1589861512632"><div class="yiv3936900151yqt1440879516" id="yiv3936900151yqtfd09776">1956 Austin Healey 100 LeMans<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv3936900151ymail_android_signature"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv3936900151ymail_android_signature_link" target="_blank" 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 clear="none"> </div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0;"><div class="yiv3936900151yqt1440879516" id="yiv3936900151yqtfd72527"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 5:14 PM, Michael MacLean via Mgs</div><div><mgs@autox.team.net> wrote:</div> </div> </div><div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6D00F6;"><div class="yiv3936900151yqt1440879516" id="yiv3936900151yqtfd89428"> <div id="yiv3936900151"><div><div class="yiv3936900151ydpe7b2e4adyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">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!</div><div dir="ltr">Mike<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Monday, May 18, 2020, 4:19:45 PM PDT, Max Heim <mvheim@sonic.net> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv3936900151"><div>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.<div class="yiv3936900151"><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv3936900151"><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"><div class="yiv3936900151">
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<div><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv3936900151" type="cite"><div class="yiv3936900151yqt7849768660" id="yiv3936900151yqt82908"><div class="yiv3936900151">On May 18, 2020, at 4:09 PM, Michael MacLean via Mgs <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3936900151" ymailto="mailto:mgs@autox.team.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:mgs@autox.team.net">mgs@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="yiv3936900151Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><div class="yiv3936900151"><div class="yiv3936900151"><div class="yiv3936900151ydpa5a20b4eyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div class="yiv3936900151" id="yiv3936900151ydpa5a20b4eyiv6685973518"><div class="yiv3936900151">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.</div><div class="yiv3936900151" dir="ltr"><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv3936900151" dir="ltr">Mike MacLean</div><div class="yiv3936900151" dir="ltr">1969 MGB GT</div><div class="yiv3936900151" dir="ltr">60 Bugeye</div><div class="yiv3936900151" dir="ltr">1956 Austin Healey 100 LeMans<br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"></div><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"><div class="yiv3936900151" id="yiv3936900151ydpa5a20b4eyiv6685973518ymail_android_signature"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3936900151" id="yiv3936900151ydpa5a20b4eyiv6685973518ymail_android_signature_link" target="_blank" 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></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3936900151" ymailto="mailto:Mgs@autox.team.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Mgs@autox.team.net">Mgs@autox.team.net</a><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none">Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html<br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none">Suggested annual donation $12.75<br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none">Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/mgs http://autox.team.net/archive<br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none">Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/mgs/mvheim@sonic.net<br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"></div></div></blockquote></div><br class="yiv3936900151" clear="none"></div></div></div></div>
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