Eric 96

Can you give me any tips on removing the nuts under the hood? What size socket? THANKS :auto:

Hamert

I'm not absolutely sure but I think it's 10mm

JF_AH_64

I am can't remember for sure, but I think they are 8mm. Just be careful prying up the old emblem, you don't want to take the clear coat off with the old adhesive.

Mikez40

I can't remember the size but the bolts are the same size as the one's holding you gas lid emblem on. The trick is not to have them fall off into the hood. Here is what I did to romove them.. I took some chewing gum and stuck it into my socket. Keep the bolt from falling out of the socket. :cheers:

stillthere

10mm deep well will do it.

corvetteronw

:iagree: I put grease in my socket so the nuts would not fall off but then the socket fell off! Luckily I had a flexible magnet to retrieve them! Live and learn. :hat

Midgetfist

:lol: I did the same thing (dropped the socket, then retrieved with a flexible magnet). Only I didn't use grease, I lined the inside of the socket with aluminum foil - works every time.
:chevy

Vette Ed

10mm put some putty into the socket to hold the nut on so
it doesn't fall off :cheers:

mitymek

an earlier post someone said to use fishing line between the emblem and hood to work it loose.
never tried it yet.post back how it worked out eh.

DMONSVETTE

USE GREASE IN SOCKET !!!!
I think it is a 10 or 8 MM socket, you might think that you can do it without
using grease in the socket, but you will end up dropping the nut into the
hood and it will be lost forever. My front one was not glued on, only the two
nuts. Check my webpage for pics of gold emblems.

:yesnod:

Black94LT1

I have the gold emblems also, and love them. They really stand out on a black car!

88-L98-Z52

Yes, the bigger problem is getting the emblem off without damaging the paint... I soaked mine in goo gone and used intertwined fishing line and thread and a lot of patience to get mine off.

DanielC485

Car wax in the socket :lol: Pretty inventive i'd say. Zymol has pretty good stick.

vettmech

it's a 10 mm. I used the greae trick too ....... I bet there are 4 or 5 of those nuts somewhere in my hood braces now :lol:

enhance

Don't worry too much if you lost one of those bults, they sell them at any auto store.
Unfortunatlly my front emblem was removed the wrong way, some damn punk tried to pry it off with a screw driver, its in the shop right now to the tune of $1600.

mitymek

"some damn punk tried to pry it off with a screw driver, its in the shop right now to the tune of $1600."


noooo,that sux!!
my father-in-law runs cadillacs,has for years.
he finally gave up replacing hood ornaments cuz punks would just rip em off the car for trophys.
he was trying to figure out a way to put voltage to the things to light the buggers up when they grabbed it.
they were good enough to steal the hood ornament without setting off the alarm.
man that just makes me sick to hink of them doing that to your vette.
just remember that carma has a way of exacting revenge on people like that.
insurance cover vandalism?


[Modified by mitymek, 7:24 PM 8/2/2003]

J Z06

When we did mine, we taped the emblem to the hood, then took off the bolts and gently pried it up off the hood.

A little 3m general purpose adhesive cleaner took off the old goo...then pop the new one on and tighten the bolts. :thumbs: