Re: 1976 grille swap help please
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Yes, you can move the buckets over a bit, perhaps drill new holes for the mount screws. The best thing to do is to measure measure measure! For my trucks (and I've had a bunch of these over the years), at some point early on I decided to simply stay with matching parts, no easy task up here in the rot belt. Even when I went from the twin round headlights to the stacked quads on my 79, I replaced everything including the core support. So, in a nut shell, yes, you can swap these parts. You just need to do a good job of layout. Have it it!
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Re: 1976 grille swap help please
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07/03/15 05:14 PM
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The hole behind the headlights is big enough to sink them into, you just have to modify the brackets. On most of the ones I've seen the lights sit flush with the grille or even in a little bit. I always hate the way the round headlight grille looks on those two years. The stacked headlight or older round front looks a lot better. And yeah the round headlight brackets are welded on while the stacked ones are bolted.
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Re: 1976 grille swap help please
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I’d been wondering if the NOS grill you picked up wasn’t military surplus. I restored a 76 True Spirit back in 2008 and at the time there was still a bunch of military surplus stuff around, but even then the 76 grills were not all that common (the 77 stuff was a lot easier to find and cheaper). Rather than fight getting the green coating off, I took the easy way out and just sent the grill out to the chrome shop. I really liked the way it turned out.
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Re: 1976 grille swap help please
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07/10/15 12:40 AM
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with the bucket and mount removed separate them removing adjusters and spring mark as needed to re assemble. next with a vice or body hammer straighten out the tabs where the bucket mount was welded,
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Re: 1976 grille swap help please
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next you will want to bend the tabs out 90* I found placing them in vise with jaws clamped as far up the tab as I could get them to bucket mount surface worked well they bend easy and even this way, repeat this for all 4 tabs on each bucket, at this time you can drill holes on out side end each of the four tabs, you will need these holes to mark the drilling points in the rad support to mount up buckets.
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Re: 1976 grille swap help please
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07/10/15 12:51 AM
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before and after straightening and re bend with holes drilled in tabs
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