Well I got the hood and hinges off. With the temp brace on the LH side still tacked in to hold the radiator support where it needs to be, I decided to make some bolt on removable temp bracing for both sides.
Then my attention turned to the radiator support nutplates. Only 1 out of 4 of them was decent. One was broken clean off, one was barely intact, and 1 had a screw broken off in it. I wanted to repair these to appear stock factory installed. Hopefully how I fixed this problem can help some of you out with the same issue
I had a spare weld on 1/4-20 nutplate, and I broke the one off that was barely hanging on, and cleaned up and straightened the holes. I used a threaded stud mounted flush to use as a handhold and to keep weld slag out of the threads when welding. I then drilled out the broken screw on the 3rd nutplate, and chased out the hole with a 1/4-20 tap. At least now a radiator can be bolted on now LOL.
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