Antique & Classic Cars Blog

Many moons ago, I encountered the bolt from Kryton broken off in the over-rider bar that affixes to the top of my ‘72 Triumph TR6 bumper. My friend Tom blasted that out with a cutting torch–it still put up an incredible fight– and welded in a nut at each end.

Now the sun is setting sooner, which curiously seems to create more time in the evenings to work on the car.

Tonight’s quick job was to run a tap through some extra weld to clean up the threads on those holes. On one end I had to drill the opening round first, then ran the tap.  Both ends cleaned up nicely.

In a future post I’ll be bolting things back together and re-installing the license-plate lamp, for which I need a new base gasket. There’s one on eBay but it’ll probably go for as much as a fresh one from Victoria British. With one or the other, the bumper’s going back together and onto the car, then it’s into the cabin for the last few bits before the car’s done. Woopie!

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