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Originally Posted by Mark DiSilvestro
The original gasket is about 1/16 inch thick. Not enough to account for your 1/2 inch gap.
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I replaced mine a few years ago with a nicer one from a parts car. The initial fit wasn't too different from the photo. When dealing with a nearly 40 year old sheet metal hood that's been raised and slammed shut countless times, I think the tolerances have to be pretty generous. The original gasket was about indeed about 1/16" thick, which is just about what the 1/8" neoprene tape compressed down to when everything was tightened. Once the thing was mounted, I still had to grab the bottom edge and "adjust" it some to get it where it needed to be, so it I was glad that I had something in there with gap filling properties.
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A piece of old tire inner-tube would work. Also, you could use some of that vinyl membrane that home-improvement centers sell for shower pans, but
that stuff is usually grey.
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Glad to hear that those solutions have worked. They surely wouldn't have worked for me. BTW- my original gasket, which was too far gone to re-use, was grey. I was glad to have material with a clean edge to start with. The gasket surface is pretty flat, with pretty tight bends to make, and the outside edge has to look good. I suppose it could be cut out of a sheet of pvc shower pan. If I were to go that route, then I'd look for a serious plumbing supply distributor who has the stuff available on bulk rolls, and can cut lengths. Otherwise there would be an awful lot of waste. I actually had a piece of the pvc pan material on hand when I needed to do this, but I also had the neoprene tape. I tried the latter first, and that was all that I needed to do. Cutting up anything else and getting a clean edge would have taken a lot more time.
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Check your replacement grill to see if there's any hardware on the back that is causing the gap.
If it's a used grill, it could be bent. If it's a new aftermarket replacement it could also be made wrong.Happy Motoring, Mark
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Good advice. If the replacement is bent, then it would just have to be bent back. It's just a ring, and it is pretty flexible. I know that aftermarket grills are available, but I've never seen an aftermarket chrome frame.