Replacing Hood Emblem
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Replacing Hood Emblem
I'm having trouble getting the hood emblem off to replace it with a GM replacement. One of the nuts came off and promptly fell into the hood, never to be seen again. The other is spinning freely and not backing off. I know these nuts are designed to cut into the plastic-where can I get replacements? Any ideas/tricks on how to remove the stuck one?
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Pull on the emblem while someone turns the nut and that should get it. If not, get in there with needle nose pliers and squeeze the nut a little to make it grip better and see if it will un screw. If its a plastic emblem and all else fails, snap the stud off from inside... As far as replacements, they are just speed nuts, id think Napa might have them.
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Pull on the emblem while someone turns the nut and that should get it. If not, get in there with needle nose pliers and squeeze the nut a little to make it grip better and see if it will un screw. If its a plastic emblem and all else fails, snap the stud off from inside... As far as replacements, they are just speed nuts, id think Napa might have them.
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For the one that fell into the hood, as long as it's still open the chances are pretty good that it fell straight down. I would recommend a short length of fuel line hose or other hose that you wrap in masking tape (with the sticky side out) near the end of the hose. It can act like a flexible pick-up tool to get through the hole, bend downward, and use the sticky tape near the end to grip and lift the speed nut out. I don't know off the top of my head whether speed nuts are ferrous but they probably are - and if so you can tape a small magnet on the end of the hose and probably get it that way as well.
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I'm having trouble getting the hood emblem off to replace it with a GM replacement. One of the nuts came off and promptly fell into the hood, never to be seen again. The other is spinning freely and not backing off. I know these nuts are designed to cut into the plastic-where can I get replacements? Any ideas/tricks on how to remove the stuck one?
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well now I got the old one off but can't get the new nuts to go on. It's got adhesive so it's stuck on there pretty good already but I was hoping to use the nuts as well.
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It's better to thread the speed nuts on before installing the emblem, in other words, cut the threads first. I don't like the adhesive on the the emblems because I like to remove them and wax behind them from time to time.
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for a good cleaning/polishing it's always beneficial to get those emblems off to do the job right.
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