Rear Trunk Lid

[insurance guy]

The manual shows a lip to mount the rear truck lid that does exist on my bumper. Where/how did others mount the pin if they had no lip?

[Pearldrummer7]

Can I see a pic of yours? I had the tabs.

[RM1SepEx]

Just make brackets and bolt them where you want them. The tabs were too tall anyway, I cut mine off.

[K3LAG]

There should be a pair of aluminum tabs in the zip lock bag with the other small aluminum parts.

Larry

[insurance guy]

Yes
I was wondering what those were
This is the screwiest kit I have ever seen. Parts with no instructions, instructions with no parts
Thanks

[RM1SepEx]

There should be a pair of aluminum tabs in the zip lock bag with the other small aluminum parts.

Larry

???? not in my early kit

[K3LAG]

???? not in my early kit

My kit, #86, had both the aluminum tabs and the molded in ones. Must have been during the changeover or something. I'm not going to use either however because I find them too flimsy. The aluminum tabs just mount to the lip of the rear bumper and stick out like the fiberglass ones did. So, If you need a bit of force to hold down the corners of the trunk lid, like I do, they flex too much. I'm going to make a plate that attaches to both the bumper and fender lips. That is one of the final things to do on our list of odds and ends to finish up.

Larry

[Bob_n_Cincy]

Can some post a picture of the aluminum rear hatch tabs.
Bob

[NBinSD]

Bob I'm at work and don't have access to the tabs to take a pic right now. I do remember Wayne posted a pic of a a simple looking plate he made that attaches to the bumper and side sail like Larry mentioned. I can't find the pic on my phone right now.

[insurance guy]

here is the pic
48852

[flynntuna]

This is what Wayne did...

48861

[Bob_n_Cincy]

here is the pic
48852

I have those in kit #21 & #22, but they are steel.
Bob

[Pearldrummer7]

I don't have those in kit 230. I have fiberglass tabs (which are terrible)

[bbjones121]

I think they did metal if they accidentally cut them off the fiberglass bumper when trimming...;)

[flynntuna]

They use robots to do the trimming I thought.

[ben1272]

Robots make mistakes too you know!

[bbjones121]

The robot definitely didn't cut my left side panel the same as the right. I have almost no fiberglass to put a pin on my right side and extra on the left.