[Tigers] Bumper installation

[e.coiner at cox.net]

The slug goes between the bumper and the steel mounting bracket.  The bracket is flat, the bumper not so much.
The piece adapts.

Erich
---- Rollright at aol.com wrote: 
> Hello,
>  
> Last night, Tod Brown and  went over the fixing bolts for the bumpers.  A 
> couple of issues/questions arose.
>  
> 1) the bumper to chassis fixing bolts for the rear are listed as  1/2" X 1 
> 3/4 UNF. For the front it lists a
>  screw (?) of 1/2" X 1" UNF. Bolt for one, and screw for another?  Dim 
> memory tells me the difference between a screw and a bolt is the a  screw is 
> threaded up to the head, and a bolt has an unthreaded section between  the 
> threads and the head. Also, how come the difference in  length here?
>  
> 2) As I'm trying to assemble a complete set of front and rear  bumpers with 
> everything, ready to bolt on when I take off the old. There is an  odd part 
> that must have some connection with the bumper system as I found it in  
> that box in the basement. It is a slug of aluminum (?) cylindrical (very  
> slightly barrel shaped) 1/2" tall, 1" in diameter with about a 1/2" hole  drilled 
> out of the center. Is this a bumper system part? Where does it go? 
> Seems like a spacer.
>  
> Best to all,  
> 
> Jim  Armstrong
> Mk 1A  
> 382002083
> LRXFE
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