[Shotimes] hood latch --- need ideas

[Leigh Smith]

Joseph;
Add two "Nut-serts"
You squeeze them to attach them (a new nut) permanently to the sheetmetal
without welding.
Sort of like a plaster board toggle bolt.
Avalable in all different sizes.
Lee
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "van Oss" <vanOss@centurytel.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:48 AM
Subject: [Shotimes] hood latch --- need ideas


> As you may recall, I am fixing up a SLO wagon for a family in hard times.
> We have just a few issues left to address.  The main thing keeping the car
> off the road is the hood latch.  Normally, two nuts are embedded in the
> radiator wall, and two screws go into these to mount the latch.  One of
> these nuts is gone, leaving a square hole in the sheet metal.  Do I have
to
> have another nut welded in?  Are there any other ways I might bolt on the
> latch?
>
> VO
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