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I recently acquired this deflector from a friend who’s dad had one of these trucks back in the day. Apparently it was removed and been hanging in the barn for a while. Still on the fence whether to put it on or not but my question is for those who have them, is the only way to mount it is to drill the hood for the brackets?
Yes the normal way is to drill holes in the hood and use some self tapper screws. If you do want to use it, make sure your hood is gapped back a bit from the grill shell, other wise the brackets can cause the hood to bind and the brackets can rub on grill shell.
Do any of y’all happen to have a pic of where they are tapped by chance ? I’ve been out in the garage trying to line it up just can’t get it to look right. Been searching the forum for pics also.
Visor gets bolted to the underside of the hood. Is it a straight one (blue) or does it have a V shape (red)? V shaped is what you need. Here are some pics of one I sold a while back.
Not 100% sure how they go, but I know along time ago the one I had on my truck ( a different one that in the pic) and it rubbed into the top of the grill shell at every bracket.
I wonder if you could get some really good 3m body tape double sided and make that work. I bought a kit from 3m with some primer prep wipes that is supposed to have extreme strength for my later model car trim. I know my 79 used to have a bug shield because the holes are there and rub marks from the brackets.
Mine has the V shape to it. I figure the screws would be the strongest option but I’ll def do some looking around. I’ll look at 3M. Never know what a man might find. Thanks for the replies.
Especially nowadays that they have more and more of that "removable" sticky stuff. Pretty strong, but when you want it gone you pull it a certain way and it comes off in a blob. Leaves the paint intact and everything.
If you can find some of that in strips, that would be the ticket I think.
But screwing was the way to do everything until the '80's came and people really got all weird about drilling holes in their trucks. Wasn't even a thing with 99% of the public before that.
