Hello all,
I am in the process of restoring my grille and the metal parts of my headlight buckets have some serious rust going on. I went through the Grille Restoration threads but didn't really see anyone have this issue. What is the best way of taking care of this? Can I sandblast it without causing damage to the plastic? If I drill out the rivets and remove them, does someone make replacement rivets? Thanks for the help !!
Mike
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Sorry about the poor picture quality. I am definitely not a cameraman :cheers:
Cover the plastic areas with several layers of masking tape & bead blast away...
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Don't know why I never thought of that. I need to remember the KISS acronym: Keep It Simple Stupid :icon_smile_big:
Thanks for the input, Bill. Much appreciated. :cheers:
Mike
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So I was working on these this weekend and while waiting for paint to dry, I was thumbing through Motorbooks International Authentic Restoration Guide for Chargers and noticed that the part numbers on my headlight buckets, #2786362 and #2786363 are actually '68's. And since I have the plastic pieces that go around the headlights that came on '68's, I am thinking that at one point in time a 68 and 69 grille was cobbled together. :rotz:
So my question is, will these headlight buckets work on a 69 grille frame? According to the Restoration Guide there were differences between the 68's and 69's, but it doesn't go into detail.
And then my next question is that the guide states that the actuator bars are different from 68 to 69...so are these actuator bars 68's or 69's? Good times lol :icon_smile_big:
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