stevesr,
My truck is a 55/1st, so I am not sure this will apply. My emblem is stamped stainless with the mounting screws set in steel brackets spotwelded on the back. This is a common rust out situation...the stainless emblem looks great but screws and brackets in back are gone. I made new brackets out of 20 gauge sheetmetal, put 10-32 screws in and silver soldered them to the brackets. After carefully removing the old rusted brackets I silver soldered the new brackets in, complete with attached screws.
This seems like a big deal, but my rig is a 4400 and this emblem, being larger was not available anywhere. The heat from a small torch won't discolor the stainless much, and it buffs out quite nicely. To be honest, if I had been able to find a "repop" for this size truck, I probably would have bought it...it is something you see everytime you walk by or pop the hood and it should look nice.
Stuart.
