Rick is correct. I just redid my bumpers and used the stock piece on the
carriage bolts.
Allan Ballard
Mk1a Tiger
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On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Rollright@aol.com wrote:
> Just called Rick at SS. He says there IS a spacer where you describe but
> is steel, 1/2" long with a narrow gauge wall. Too think and it will
> interfere with the sheetmetal (?) So the slug that I'm trying to describe is
not
> that distancing piece.....
>
> He thinks the slug goes on the carriage bolt between the overrider and the
> bumper. He's not sure and I don't think so.
>
> Jim
>
>
> In a message dated 10/17/2011 12:45:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> sjhcobra1@cs.com writes:
>
> Between the bumper bracket and frame to keep the bracket off the sheet
> metal.
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> ____________________________________
>
> From: Rollright@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:29:55 -0400 (EDT)
> To: <sjhcobra1@cs.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Bumper installation
>
>
> Steve
>
> Thanks for answering.
>
> OK, rear bumper. Where? I'd bet in-between the "back bar" and the
> chassis mount? That would space it off the 3/4" inch that it is long? Or is
it
> between the bumper and the back bar?
>
> Please confirm
>
> Best,
>
> Jim A
>
>
> In a message dated 10/17/2011 10:15:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> sjhcobra1@cs.com writes:
>
> Jim:
>
> That spacer is for the rear bumper bolts to prevent you from crushing
> the metalwork around the frame mount.
>
> Steve Halbrook
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rollright <Rollright@aol.com>
> To: tigers <tigers@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Mon, Oct 17, 2011 10:00 am
> Subject: [Tigers] Bumper installation
>
> Hello,
>
> Last night, Tod Brown and went over the fixing bolts for the bumpers.
> A
> couple of issues/questions arose.
>
> 1) the bumper to chassis fixing bolts for the rear are listed as 1/2"
> X 1
> 3/4 UNF. For the front it lists a
> screw (?) of 1/2" X 1" UNF. Bolt for one, and screw for another? Dim
> memory tells me the difference between a screw and a bolt is the a
> screw is
> threaded up to the head, and a bolt has an unthreaded section between
> the
> threads and the head. Also, how come the difference in length here?
>
> 2) As I'm trying to assemble a complete set of front and rear bumpers
> with
> everything, ready to bolt on when I take off the old. There is an odd
> part
> that must have some connection with the bumper system as I found it in
> that box in the basement. It is a slug of aluminum (?) cylindrical
> (very
> slightly barrel shaped) 1/2" tall, 1" in diameter with about a 1/2"
> hole drilled
> out of the center. Is this a bumper system part? Where does it go?
> Seems like a spacer.
>
> Best to all,
>
> Jim Armstrong
> Mk 1A
> 382002083
> LRXFE
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