Anyone have pics of the rubber bumpers used on the hood of 47-54 Chevy COE? I ordered a new set from Jim Carter but it came with three nearly flat bumpers and four relatively tall bumpers. The front, bottom edge of my hood has four holes but I’m guessing I don’t use the four larger bumpers in these holes because it seems like it would leave an awfully large gap. Guess I’m not sure where any of them go and hope that someone may have some pics that they can help me out with.
I have been waiting for someone else to respond as I am not sure myself what is correct. My '50 Chevy COE appears to have 8 holes total, so it is odd that your set came with only 7. My hood has two holes each side of the hood, where the hood side mates with the fenders. I have thin bumpers here. Where the upper radiator shroud/panel meets the top of the grill, there are 4 holes and here I have the large thick bumpers placed. Hope this helps, Kent
Again, I don't know what is correct as I had almost no bumpers remaining when I restored my '50 COE. The pictures are all from the left (drivers side) of the hood. There is a set of bumpers I forgot to mention in my first post. These were on my truck when I got it and are correct for sure. Attached to the cab are 3 bumpers on each side along the firewall; these hold the rear of the hood halves off the cab metal (first picture). These are held to the cab by clutch head sheet metal screws. Then there are two each side of the hood; these are relatively flat bumpers (second picture). Finally, there are four thick bumpers along the top of the grill, two each side (third picture).
Kent
Last edited by Lightholder's Dad; 09/19/20199:43 PM.
My 54/55 GMC COE did not have the "3 bumpers on each side along the firewall; these hold the rear of the hood halves off the cab metal (first picture)"
The same long rubber seal-strip (hood to cowl seal) was on the COE as was used on the standard cab & panel-body Chevrolet trucks.
Tim, I have two roughly 20 inch segments of the standard hood to cowl seal at the center of the hood. The seal-strip ends just above the top bumper shown in my picture. Maybe the engineers did away with these bumpers, as there is no reason you could not just use a longer strip of the standard hood to cowl seal.
There was a change in relatively early 1955 for all GM trucks:
Chevrolet trucks: from 1955st (first series) Advance-Design series to 1955nd (second series) Task Force series GMC: from 1955 (first series) New Design (1955 Z series) to 1955 (second series) Blue Chip (1955 Y series)
The styles of the cabs changed significantly for Chevrolet & GMC.
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I wonder if this was a change between 47-54 MY and 55-beyond MY?
MY=Model Year - for Chevrolet and/or GMC trucks?
Then, in answer to that question :
- 47-54 MY : (47-54 Advance-Design Chevrolet trucks and 47-54 New Design GMC trucks) -- there were many changes in the several MY between 47-54 -- there were very slight differences between the 1954 Model Year and the early 1955 Model Year.
- 55-beyond MY (1955-1959) - there were two 55 Models Years for Chevrolet & GMC trucks: - the earlier 1955 & the later 1955 - for Chevrolet and GMC trucks 1955 Chevrolet Advance-Design to the significantly different 1955 Task Force Chevrolet trucks; and, 1955 GMC New Design to the significantly different 1955 Blue Chip GMC trucks
