Eric:
I can answer this one from personal experience. Yesterday I removed
the bumpers from my 58 MGA. First I took a cutting torch and flamed off all
the bolt heads on the outside of the bumpers. Then I took the torch and cut
through the over-rider mounting bolts on the front bumper. The bumpers
could then be prised from the bumper irons. Removal of the front bumper
irons was complicated because the frame supports were pointing in strange
directions. A hammer solved that problem. Storage of the rear bumper was
made easier by using the torch to cut it in half. Once the bumper was off,
the valence was removed by snapping the heads off all the little bolts.
Some prying was necessary. The valence was folded for storage, some jumping
up and down allowed it to fit tidily in the same receptacle as the bumpers.
Sorry folks, this is tongue in cheek. But there was not a lot of
salvagable bumper bits on my car.
Kelvin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Stephen [mailto:bk996@freenet.carleton.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 1998 7:44 AM
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Bumper removal - MGA 1600 Roadster
>
>
> Santa came through with the complete body rubber set for the '60 MGA.
> I'm having some difficulty trying to determine the most efficient way
> of removing the front and rear bumpers so that I can replace
> the bumper
> grommets. I know there has to be some experience with this on the
> list. It looks, from the manual, as if I only have to remove the
> overrider bolts to have the bumpers come off in one piece but
> this seems
> too simple. Look forward to your replys.
>
> Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
>
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> Regards, Eric Stephen
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