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nisent nisent
New User | Posts: 27 | Joined: 04/09
Posted: 06/15/09
06:35 AM

my friend is restoring his 79 ta and he wants to do the best job possible.he stripped the nose and bumper cover but what he needs to know is what do you do to fix the imperfictions and small stress crack in the plastic the local paint store didnt really have much to offer for  advice anf i cant see replacing these parts for a few small cracks over all these parts are in great shape.if anyone could give some insight it would be awsome thanks,nisent  

 
pwrcat4000 pwrcat4000
New User | Posts: 11 | Joined: 06/09
Posted: 07/05/09
05:35 PM

I hit a golf course fence with my 1978 (don't ask) and damaged the left side of my nose right by the bumper jack  this split the nose there about 3 inches I used a sandable epoxy to repair it that was about 12 years ago it is still holding no cracks ect I had to use a DA sander to get down to the rubber. It was a two part process. you can't see it here
Anyway if you search this board for
Endura Nose Help
seems like the same kind of issue.
hope that helped  
My 1978 T/A the only thing that I ever loved that didn't leave me stranded (Yet)

 
nisent nisent
New User | Posts: 27 | Joined: 04/09
Posted: 07/08/09
06:43 PM

hey thanks it does help it seems not very many people have an idea as to how to fix these older bumper covers even the local body shops seemed to avoid giving advice and it looks like you has held up so we will try that as well thanks again,nisent  

 
hornet1 hornet1
New User | Posts: 19 | Joined: 09/08
Posted: 08/31/09
10:33 AM

There is a product made for urethane called Fusor which is a single stage goo in a tube which hardens and is sandable which works very well on plastic.It is red in color.The trick is painting it with basecoat clearcoat.You have to prime with flex additive,paint the base coat without flex additive and when you clear it you need flex additive.And always stick to one brand of paint such as Dupont,Ditzler or whatever for the primer,basecoat and clearcoat.  

 

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