beerczar1976 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Decided to finally finish putting the front bumper on my '50 Special this past weekend. What a job. Not difficult in the sense of putting it together, but it was very awkward trying to keep the whole assembly lifted up to the right height and then getting the bracket holes aligned on the frame horns under the engine bay. Just the actual face of the bumper was on the car once before but it was sitting weird. I pulled it and the brackets off the frame and bolted all the components together like I had seen the bumper installed in an old factory photo. Doing this helped keep everything squared up, and it now sits pretty level across the front of the car. One side used to sit too high. Spacing also looks pretty good that I should also be able to get the fender splash guards back behind the bumper and the face of the fenders now too.As my question refers to, there are supposed to be almost elongated "S" shaped "Braces" that attach to the first of the 3 side holes of the main U-shaped bumper bracket. One on each side. The ends of these then end behind the front of the face of the bumper. However I couldn't really find anything that the bolt holes align to. The grille teeth bolt to the bumper face and to the "wing" on the bottom. The Turn Signal housings sit too far to the left and right to even contact the braces... My thought is the factory maybe just used them when lifting the bumper up to the frame of the car during assembly... I'm like 99% I'm not missing any components. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 beerczar, they are about 6 or 8 inches long, right? Bolt holes at 90 degrees to each other. Large hole goes on the bracket bolt at the front of bumper bracket at front of frame . Smaller hole goes to the bolt holding the piece that ties all the "teeth" and the parking light housings together at the bottom back. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Phillips Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Like this...Pete Phillips, BCA #73381950 76-Rand other Buicks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerczar1976 Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 Ahh! They go down diagonally! I'll try that again next time I get a chance to crawl under there. I've got to figure out what size bolts go back in the bottom of the teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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