Installed new headlamps and a gas tank filler neck grommet on my 49 yesterday. Didn't think the grommet was going to be that tough but boy was I wrong. After removing the old one I cleaned everything and sprayed the tank tube and the grommet with Windex. I tried using a thin tooth brush handle to help push the lip of the grommet in but it would not go. Had to call on the wife to come help out. Got an idea so I had the wife hold the grommet in place while I put the round end of a ball-peen hammer against the grommet while striking it on the other end with another hammer. It wasn't pretty it went in.
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