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Old Jan 31, 2006 | 08:20 PM
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When I pulled the rad support on my '69 coupe I found that it was somewhat rotten on the bottom.

So I hunted around and found a replacement unit. However, when I pulled the original rad support out it had shimms under it where it bolted to the frame on the bottom.

My question is: If it needs to be shimmed, what should I shim it to? How do you tell how many shims? Is there a measurement I need to shim to?

Sorry, that was 3 questions.

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I just shimmed mine enough to lift up the nose slightly with the center support rod and have the hood line up as good as possible.
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