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sixshooter798

07-20-2011 01:54 AM

Junkyard Score

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Got the necessary stuff to do my swap to the 73/74 grille today! All the grilles I found were toast, but the mounting brackets were all there, as well as a couple emblems! What did they charge me? $15.
I've started cleaning up the emblem on the right.

bigblock73

07-20-2011 06:48 AM

Re: Junkyard Score

Did you get the latch too?, cause you will need it. If your truck has an internal hood release, you'll need the filler panel too.

kris's66lwb

07-20-2011 10:49 AM

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I took my orginal hood relese bracket and hacked it off to accomidate the grille i just need to get the side bractets seeing as how the center brackets dont line up with the 80s core suypport

BigRed76

07-20-2011 12:34 PM

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What did you do to clean up the 350 emblem?

bigblock73

07-20-2011 12:59 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BigRed76 (Post 4801027)

What did you do to clean up the 350 emblem?

Soak it in brake fluid, strips off all the paint easily.

Hoods69BadBowTie

07-20-2011 01:56 PM

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Nice find that aint bad at all and those emblems will look pretty cool.

sixshooter798

07-20-2011 03:13 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bigblock73 (Post 4800658)

Did you get the latch too?, cause you will need it. If your truck has an internal hood release, you'll need the filler panel too.

I have an external hood release. I didn't see anywhere that I needed to swap the latch assemblies, but I'll go back and get it if necessary.

bigblock73

07-20-2011 09:31 PM

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Read Kens retro tech article, it covers it pretty good there. You won't be able to run your external release...get the latch and filler panel to complete the swap.

sixshooter798

07-20-2011 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by bigblock73 (Post 4801838)

Read Kens retro tech article, it covers it pretty good there. You won't be able to run your external release...get the latch and filler panel to complete the swap.

From reading his article, it seems that if I had an internal release latch I would need to swap some stuff out. The article does not indicate that a 77 external release will not work.

bigblock73

07-20-2011 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by sixshooter798 (Post 4801867)

From reading his article, it seems that if I had an internal release latch I would need to swap some stuff out. The article does not indicate that a 77 external release will not work.

OK, you said you had an EXTERNAL (and I even said that, but was thinking you had an internal), sorry...so go back and get the latch, that will be all you need.

sixshooter798

07-21-2011 12:23 AM

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Whats the difference in the latches?

bigblock73

07-21-2011 12:40 AM

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How they connect to the center brace...

sixshooter798

07-21-2011 01:31 AM

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Well alright. My grille will be here in 3-7 business days, and I'll go back to the junkyard when it arrives. There were 3 of them lined up for me, so I doubt all 3 latches will be gone by then.

sixshooter798

07-26-2011 02:42 AM

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The OEM latch in my 77' works just fine...

rcsweet21

07-29-2011 07:28 PM

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I have a grill for a 1978 chevy if they need it

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