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Yeah, I think I can get it pulled back in close enough to work. This should have been caught in quality control or when someone was marking the holes for the shroud. Here is a pic of the offending corner. You can see where the hole is marked correctly, but someone drilled a hole a half inch lower for some reason?!?
The next problem will be, once I get the bracket straight, how am I going to attach the shroud to the radiator. As you can see in the picture, there is barely enough room to slide a small nut in there? Once the shroud is on, there would be no way to get a wrench in there to hold it. Plus, the bolt would have to be super short to keep any extra from damaging the core of the radiator. This whole bracket/shroud thing isn't engineered very well, maybe that's why Champion "doesn't include any mounting hardware" with any of it?!?! I was thinking maybe I could have a small machine screw TIG welded into each mounting hole and then use them as studs. I'm open to any and all ideas. Thanks!
Yeah, I think I can get it pulled back in close enough to work. This should have been caught in quality control or when someone was marking the holes for the shroud. Here is a pic of the offending corner. You can see where the hole is marked correctly, but someone drilled a hole a half inch lower for some reason?!?
The next problem will be, once I get the bracket straight, how am I going to attach the shroud to the radiator. As you can see in the picture, there is barely enough room to slide a small nut in there? Once the shroud is on, there would be no way to get a wrench in there to hold it. Plus, the bolt would have to be super short to keep any extra from damaging the core of the radiator. This whole bracket/shroud thing isn't engineered very well, maybe that's why Champion "doesn't include any mounting hardware" with any of it?!?! I was thinking maybe I could have a small machine screw TIG welded into each mounting hole and then use them as studs. I'm open to any and all ideas. Thanks!