So I am trying to put my nose back on. I have all the pieces, but some don't make sense in terms of where to put them.

Here are the parts in question.




Now, my first question is on the sides/ends of the nose. There are 3 bolts that slide through the fender ends, but I only appear to have 4 nuts (2 per side) for reattaching on these 3 bolts. But the issue is the bottom connection, which is vertical instead of horizontal. For that, I'd swear I want to use one of the 4 bolts I have (2 long/2 short) but none of them want to thread.

The next question is the front of the nose. I had a small bag which consists or 3 pieces. 1 parallelogram on a post which just pushes on to something, and two rectangles with huge plastic screws that go through them Now my thought is that these need to connect to those three plastic posts that secure the back part of the main intake.

That would leave me with 5 holes on the top of the intake that attach to the fiberglass rebar. For that I have a bunch of expanding plastic thingies which take a plastic bullet, instead of a screw.


Does this sound right? Those bullet thingies dont appear to cause enough expansion when seated, and the center parallelgram doesn't appear to lock down either, although looking at it, it appears that I may have to bend out one of its

 

It looks like you are missing a few bolts/clips there.

There should be four bolts with flared heads (no washers as I remember) -- 2 for each fender attachment. Then there is the one vertical screw for each side (not a bolt, a screw).

The parallelogram plastic clip (there should be 3) go on the bottom side of the intake/radiator opening. You'll see three tabs on the radiator side. Then there should be 2 or 3 of the rectangular plastic clips, those go on the top side of the intake/radiator opening. As for that odd plastic expansion clip, I don't remember, I had that one left over too....

 

Yeah, I found the other bag of stuff, that had the rest of the nuts needed, and the two screws needed for the nose sides.

As for that off plastic expansion clip, with the bullet fitting, I have like 5 or 6 of those. The funny thing is, there are 4 holes at the top of the intake. The innermost two appear to be threaded and take nuts just fine.

 

At least 1 mystery is solved. The bullet fittings are used to secure the oil cooler ducts, 3 on each cooler.

 

Oh, I don't have those anymore....now I feel better about having one of those left over!

 

Same here, I was also putting in the CWR set, but I forgot to put those with the ducts...