Front Nose Support Assembly Replacement

I took off the existing front nose support assembly to replace it with the one from the parts car. Although there was nothing wrong with this one it did suffer from the same condition as the rear tail lights compartment area which was just a minor corner cutting on the repaint job as mentioned in my last post. I figured that seeing how I had the one off of the parts car already taken off, all it needed was to be cleaned up, primed and repainted. The one on the car was dirty, and had peeling paint coming off of it so rather than fight with it on the car the other option seemed the best way to go.

As you can see here in this 2nd photo the once from the parts car had been repainted and is looking a lot better than it's counterpart.

Here you can see the newly painted support assembly installed on the car. I also figured at this stage it would be a good idea to do the touch up work on the Knight Rider front nose seeing how it needed to be done and was coming off anyways in order for me to do this little job of parts replacement.

Now onto a little fibreglass work, sanding and priming of the front Knight Rider nose. ;)

Modifying the Front Nose Support Assembly

Step 1: Cut these ends off neatly with a hacksaw.


















Step 2: Make up a steel or aluminum "Re Attachment Bracket." Bend it slightly on one end as shown to match as best you can the angle of the end pieces you cut off of the front nose support assembly.

Step 3: Drill holes and re attach using small bolts. This will make fitting the end pieced in behind the rigid fibreglass Knight Rider nose much easier as you can fit them in first and then be able to bolt them back onto the front nose support assembly.









Step 4: Depending on how much space you have where your scanner is to be mounted you may need to remove this centre piece of the support assembly.

Step 5: If you do find that you have to remove the centre piece of the support assembly you can re screw it back onto the centre support structure using the remaining screws, you can drill an additional hole and place an extra bolt on each side but it's not critical as once all the pieces are attached you should have plenty of support at the ends of the front nose support assembly and have a nice clear location for your scanner.

File off any sharp edges from where you cut off the centre part of the support assembly. Keep in mind that you will need to clean up, prime and re paint your modified parts to help prevent rust.

This option should enable me to keep the front nose support assembly for it's intended purpose which was to offer greater support for the front nose and serve as a place to put the turn signals. Mine are being re located to below next to the Fog lights but I still want to give my front nose all the additional support I can so to me this option makes sense. ;)