1980 front bumper cover

mainejohn · 05-21-2011, 07:30:02 PM

my son was just on his way to prom in a rain down pour, and we have MT street & strip tires on it and he hyrdo planned and smacked a street sign and smashed the lower part of the bumper cover. How do i remove this cover? thanks for any tips.

RICARDO1969 · 05-21-2011, 07:36:48 PM

If Your Realy Strong you Can Remove It With Your Bare Hands,otherwise Your Going To Need Some Tools

RICARDO1969 · 05-21-2011, 07:48:21 PM

Remove the plastic head light bezels look inside you will see bolts that are attached to the fenders it's pretty simple.

mainejohn · 05-22-2011, 11:40:01 AM

thanks for the help. so must of the securing bolts/etc. are behind the headlight bezels?

david.cordle · 05-22-2011, 12:41:27 PM

Actually they are all around the outside of it too, in various locations. The easiest way without pulling the front clip is just start L to R, tag & bag bolts and screws, and take lots of pictures as you go. Proceed slowly, the urethane nose is hard to replace but is also easily repaired most times. Depending on how hard he hit the sign, you may need to replace / repair the fiberglass piece (#49 in DIA. above) under the cover too.

david.cordle · 05-22-2011, 12:52:40 PM

I have several pictures from when I took mine apart, I can PM you or post'em here if you'd like

mainejohn · 05-22-2011, 04:47:59 PM

is that #49 made of hard foam/rubber? because a couple of foam pieces broke off from some were underneith. iam thinking if i can pole the nose off and mend and reinforce the cracked areas from behind and bondo the front of it, it should be okay.

david.cordle · 05-22-2011, 05:21:17 PM

BTW, is your son OK? My guess is he was more worried about wrecking Dad's car than anything. #49 is made of fiberglass, emailing the pictures now, it will take a little bit. Yahoo only allows 5 attachments. Here is the thread for when I repaired the front bumper cushion ((#46) made of foam rubber):

http://www.nastyz28.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206286

There is more on this on the 1st page of my project thread near the bottom

http://www.nastyz28.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206463

mainejohn · 05-23-2011, 07:33:23 AM

yes he and his date were fine, he was scared to death i was going to kill him. If it wasn't prom i might have yelled, but i just swaped cars and told him to go have a good time. this was actually the first time that i had the car out after the rebuild and i really put it through the test!! She is pretty nasty camaro from 25-100 mph.

david.cordle · 05-23-2011, 09:02:43 AM

Did the pics and thread help you out any?

mainejohn · 05-23-2011, 10:50:14 AM

YES they hepled a bunch!! the screws that connect the nose to the front part of fenders, can i get to those with removing a bunch of non related screws that hold the fenders?

david.cordle · 05-23-2011, 01:16:48 PM

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Originally Posted by mainejohn

YES they hepled a bunch!! the screws that connect the nose to the front part of fenders, can i get to those with removing a bunch of non related screws that hold the fenders?

You should be able to get to the bolts on the inside of the fenders by removing the battery and smog canister. They will still be a PITA to see. But still a very easy process. At the bottom of the fenders you will find a bracket with 3 bolts that connect the nose to the lower fender extension. Use lots of PB Blaster on those, they are notoriously brittle bolts.

mainejohn · 05-23-2011, 02:03:43 PM

okay thanks. i dont have any smog can or anything else like that, its all been stripped and the battery is in the trunk. so hoping it wont be to bad.

Twisted_Metal · 05-23-2011, 02:59:43 PM

Hand the boy a socket wrench and tell him to go to work.
He's young and flexible... He'll figure it out.

Good Luck!

david.cordle · 05-23-2011, 03:06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twisted_Metal

Hand the boy a socket wrench and tell him to go to work.
He's young and flexible... He'll figure it out.

Good Luck!

X2 He broke it, he needs to be the one to fix it... with close supervision of course