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I went to a local auto swapmeet that they have here every year and found several 65 and 66 Ford trucks.
I noticed that three of the 65's had 66 grills. I talked with a couple of the owners and they both said that it was just to much trouble finding a 65 grill. I came close to doing the same thing when my truck was wrecked but ended up finding one on E-bay. Cost me a bundle and took a lot of work to get it looking good but I wanted the stock look. The guy who sold it to me had to use a torch to cut the bolts to remove it and melted the Alluminum and I had to repair it.
If these grills are so hard to find I think that I am gonna start finding an easy way to remove them and make weekly trips to the wrecking yard for grills. We all know what a bear it is to remove these things once rust has frozen the bolts that you can not acess the nuts on.
You guys have any easy tricks to getting these bolts out?
I'm thinking Sawz all because the wrecking yards will not let you use a torch.
Don't need to tell ya removing the grille in a salvage yard can be a big pain especially if did not bring proper tools. Removing grille with the upper valance and lower splash shield attached works best for me. Got couple extra steel grilles but there not too difficult to come by. Couple other items may want to get as backup, rear window, heater boot, on and on. Getting the urge to go salvage shopping it has been some time.
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