70 cuda grill repair

With the cost of the after market grills out a site , what glue/epoxy is the best to use to repair a crack in the center part of the grill? Not broke in half just a large crack.

This was posted by Scott Harms Smith a few years ago...


Start with 100% pure Acetone, buy a gallon. 
Pour an ounce or so into a glass jar (small open mouth jar). Take a scrap grill and using something sharp, scrape off peelings (like pencil shavings size) into the jar of acetone. Put allot of shavings in, the acetone will gradually melt the plastic into a goo. Add enough plastic until the goo reaches toothpaste consistency. Once you have a good batch melted put the lid on the jar tightly and set it aside. Now, prep your grill as normal, V out cracks on both sides, etc. Use clamps near the joint to align the two sides flush and parallel. Smear on some plastic goo, leave it crowned up over the crack like a regular weld looks, let it cure overnight. Sand to flush the next day, fill any pinholes with JB Weld. The crack will practically disappear at this point, paint as normal

I've used 3M 04240 with good results. It does cure fairly fast and you need to have the area really clean.

Wow, didn't expect that for a answer. Sounds like a good sound repair, but now to find a donor grill. Do you think some other type more available grill shavings might work? Might have to e-mail Scott Harm Smith to find that out or maybe he'll chime in. Thanks for the info.

I think any Mopar grill from that time frame would be fine.. It just needs to be the same type plastic..