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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:42 pm    Post subject: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
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Anybody know whether i'm suppose to use a nut or something else to keep this emblem in place?

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
Is it a two piece deal?

Mine is... I used nuts + washers to attach the emblem/base/seal to the nose
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 2:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
Hi, it's one piece. Meaning both are already attached to the emblem. So you suggest nuts and washer? I guess now just need to find the nut size.

What size nut did you use?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
I found mine at my local Ace hardware, great selection of metric nuts/bolts....
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
Thanks all. I guess I'll get off my lazy butt and bring this piece to my local home depot or ace hardware and search for the nut/washer.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
Home depot wont have jack.
My Ace is a tiny little downtown old brick building. They have more metric than home schlepo and Lowes combined
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 4:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
good to know.
Off the top of your head, do you know what size nut you used? Was at an m2?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
off the top of my head...i couldn't tell you that I had oatmeal for breakfast. Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
c21darrel wrote:
Ace...more metric than home schlepo and Lowes combined
Yup. "Ace is the Place..."

You can also use those spring steel 'speed nuts' on the studs. I believe that KGPR sold them as part of a mounting kit for the emblem. Small nuts & washers will work too. Bring the emblem with you to make sure you get the right size and be careful screwing stuff onto those studs. That metal is pretty soft...
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:41 am    Post subject: Re: Ghia front emblem install Reply with quote
c21darrel wrote:
off the top of my head...i couldn't tell you that I had oatmeal for breakfast. Smile

If you always used just one size metric nut to fasten things down, then you could remember the size as easily as you remember that you have oatmeal for breakfast every day.

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