nose above grill cracking [message #148247] |
Mon, 31 October 2011 00:31 |
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RF_Burns
Messages: 2277 Registered: June 2008 Location: S. Ontario, Canada
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I have a crack in the point of the front cap that is slowly growing longer. I'm talking about between the 2 front access doors,right above the grill where the SCM comes to a point in the nose.
I suspect it is a stress point there. The crack was maybe 1/2" long when I got the coach in 2008, now its about 2" long.
Anything I can do to repair it, or stop it from getting worse?
thanks
Bruce Hislop
ON Canada
77PB, 455 Dick P. rebuilt, DynamicEFI EBL EFI & ESC. 1 ton front end
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=29001
My Staff says I never listen to them, or something like that
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Re: nose above grill cracking [message #148248 is a reply to message #148247] |
Mon, 31 October 2011 00:49 |
GMC Cruse
Messages: 606 Registered: June 2009 Location: SE Michigan
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RF_Burns wrote on Mon, 31 October 2011 01:31 | I have a crack in the point of the front cap that is slowly growing longer. I'm talking about between the 2 front access doors,right above the grill where the SCM comes to a point in the nose.
I suspect it is a stress point there. The crack was maybe 1/2" long when I got the coach in 2008, now its about 2" long.
Anything I can do to repair it, or stop it from getting worse?
thanks
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Drilling a small hole at the current end of the crack should keep it from going further. Then v out the crack and repair it with a SMC compatible material.
Mike K.
'75 PB
Southeast Michigan
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Re: [GMCnet] nose above grill cracking [message #148345 is a reply to message #148325] |
Mon, 31 October 2011 22:16 |
Ken Henderson
Messages: 8726 Registered: March 2004 Location: Americus, GA
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So did I. The tabs where the "fenders" bolt to the under-grille cross
piece are prone to breaking off; Emery's headlight bucket tie rod will pull
the assembly back together and hold it there.
The all-thread also serves as a convenient anchor point for some of the
springs I use to hold the grille in place.
Ken H.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Rob Mueller <robmueller@iinet.net.au>wrote:
> Emery,
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> Looks like Skip copied your fix!
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> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=39886
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> You can just barely see the all thread rod above the bottom of the grill.
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> One thing, when I got Double Trouble I found the lines from the trans
> cooler sitting on the all thread, I lifted them up and sure
> enough they were chaffed. I wrapped a piece of water hose around each one
> of them and tie wrapped them in place. When Ken H and I
> installed a new aluminum radiator I moved the trans cooler below the A/C
> condenser and the lines didn't come near it anymore.
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> Regards,
> Rob M.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emery Stora
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> I did this years ago and documented the pictures here:
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> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=3130
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