1970 Front bumper brackets (Hardware)

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After a valiant 5 minute search in previous postings I couldn't find what I was looking for.... Does anyone have a picture of the bumper brackets installed on the car, specifically the frame rails? It looks somewhat unique how they mount and searching through my bucket of bolts that came with the car I don't see anything that seems to fit the build.
 
Pre 73 uses carriage bolts inserted into a slot in the frame with the nut/washer over the bumper rail itself. Kinda fiddly to get rails over the carriage bolts when the rails are mounted to the bumper.
 
I have everything in pieces. I’ll try to snap some pics if nobody digs any up. Agreed with Chris that the frame side is a little tricky. You definitely need to install starting with the frame. You need wiggle room to move the bumper bracket laterally to clear the carriage bolts in the frame slot.
 
The 633 was much more straight forward but I'll get there. I've found two different size carriage bolts in my bucket, one has a chromeish cap pressed on it. I'll try them out this weekend if I get too frustrated with carbs, weatherstripping, blah blah…

Thanks!!
 
My front fenders don't have mounting holes predrilled so I'm getting her as close S possible to stock look. How does this look? Up and down alignment is centered over the stone chip line, and in / out adjusting is aligning bumper edge nearly to wheel arch lip.
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dave v. in nc said:
More important to me, anyway is the 10' test of "does the bumper parallel the earth"...then all is good.
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I overthink everything on this rebuild, this phase included. Thanks for the tip to trust my eyes! Wasn't too bad to line up.
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Need to order some rear rider rubber then on to install that bumper.
 
Oh those gaskets! Walloth nesch had those gray c shaped gaskets. I thought you were referring to the pads that surround the m6 bolts.
 
Thomas76 said:
After a valiant 5 minute search in previous postings I couldn't find what I was looking for.... Does anyone have a picture of the bumper brackets installed on the car, specifically the frame rails? It looks somewhat unique how they mount and searching through my bucket of bolts that came with the car I don't see anything that seems to fit the build.
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i did a complete write up some years ago,
try to find under my name
 
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