hood and trnk badges

[dinghyguy]

Just a thank you to Vick for the badges on the holiday wreath. I installed them last night and Norma has new bling.
Must say it was a pain in the butt though. The hood looked easy, but the spacing of the studs, the length and hood sheat metal conspired to make a regular 7mm socket too short, a long socket to long because the extension hit the sheet metal. Eventually used an old nut driver with a flexible shaft to get the 2 mm offset to make it all work. And that was the easy one!. How do people do the trunk lid? The PO actually bent the sheet metal enough to get a wrench in onto the 7mm nuts, so removal was not too bad, but installation was almost impossible. There must have been an insert of some kind originally. Interestingly the holes were a bit larger and the PO had installed a washer as well as the nut. I did the same but my big fingers and those tiny nuts meant i dropped the bits many times. It took two of us over an hour to change the badges, worse than the starter motor!

But hey they look super, the gold against the dark blue, so thanks again Matt and Vicks for making things brighter in the currently dark world.

dinghyguy