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50Trucking · 12-29-2023, 07:59 PM

Doing a restoration on a 28 Tudor. Had to remove the cowl lights to repaint the replacement gas tank and the cowl.

The cowl arms are made of pot metal and the surface that mates with the cowl is very small. This allows the cowl light to be very susceptible to moving. There is not enough surface on the cowl light arm to bond to the cowl. Needless to say while tighten the nut to make sure the light did not move, the threads stripped out of the arm.

What can I do, short of buying a new arm, to fix this problem?
Has anyone modified the end of the arm to better make it mate with the cowl whereby it will be less likely to move? How did you modify it?

Seems to me this was a poor design.

12-29-2023, 07:59 PM	#1
50Trucking Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: St Augustine Fl Posts: 21	Stripped Cowl Light Arm on my 28 Doing a restoration on a 28 Tudor. Had to remove the cowl lights to repaint the replacement gas tank and the cowl. The cowl arms are made of pot metal and the surface that mates with the cowl is very small. This allows the cowl light to be very susceptible to moving. There is not enough surface on the cowl light arm to bond to the cowl. Needless to say while tighten the nut to make sure the light did not move, the threads stripped out of the arm. What can I do, short of buying a new arm, to fix this problem? Has anyone modified the end of the arm to better make it mate with the cowl whereby it will be less likely to move? How did you modify it? Seems to me this was a poor design.