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    Default Radiator stone guard

    Installed this on a stock M715 restoration, but it's not OE, so I guess it's a mod, so I'm posting here. Just thought my radiator needed some additional protection than the widely spaced grill brush guard. So, pulled some expanded steel from a utility trailer project I had laying around and some 1" strip steel and welded this up and bolted to the OE grill tabs. Looks like it belongs there, to me. First attempt at posting pics, so, fingers crossed.

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    Close, but no cookies...let's try this pic link...

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    Great solution. I literally was standing at my truck yesterday thinking I need to put some type of protection for the expensive radiator I put in. Very handy to have the civi grill mounting tabs there. I intend to do the same thing as you did. Thanks for posting. I like it!

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    There is a center bottom tab as well, but it sits a few inches forward of the side tabs. I believe the OE Gladiator grill must have come out in a V shape that I did not want for this "military" stone guard. So, you may choose to ignore the bottom center mounting tab as I did. Leave it alone, bend it flat or cut it off, up to you. I ran a 3/8" bolt through the rear of the tabs and installed a nut and tightened down and then put my side strips over this nut and installed another nut and lock washer and tightened dow. Too much work for me to try to weld a bolt head from in front of the radiator and unnless you remove the marker lights, you have no access to the back of these tabs for a wrench. One thing I considered was just getting some large, short screws that would fighten down in the existing tab holes and just screw the side frame strips in from the front. That probably would have been the easiest method. Post some pics of your installation when complete as I can't seem to get the process down.

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    The civilian grille is indeed bowed out in the middle...a shallow V when viewed from the top.
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