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Old June 4th 2007, 09:27
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By now i was in the mode and decided to remove the bumpers and make a tidier front number plate bracket. I just cut two strips of aluminum 185mm long 80mm wide by 1.6mm? thick, stuck them in a vice. Bent them by hand and them used a raw hide mallet to get a nice ninty degree bend. dilled the holes, rivoted them together, fitted the number plate and attached to the car. I had to elongate on of the hole to get it to fit. Im happy with the result. Ill do the back next week when i can afford a LED light.

the rivots

back view (before i elongated the rear most hole)


Fitted, nice and snug.

The left hand ball joint turned out to be stuffed so ill have to take a look at that.
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Old June 4th 2007, 09:29
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Now my beetle is awaiting next week end, when the boot lid gets a coat of black (mostly to hide the dirty yellow it currently is). A new shift rod tube bush, having gear selection problems (probably because the plate is still in wrong) and apparently i wasnt supposed to clean all the grease off, opps.
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