Rubbers: Size Matters

[jaudette3]

This started in another thread but I'm moving it over here to get some attention as I'd really like to know the answer. I know there are folks in this forum who know and I'm hoping to get their attention.

I recently mounted a factory rear nudge bar on my '67 SWB and m happy with the way things look at the moment - with the nudge bar mounted on bumper guards with no no rubber buffers on them. But a little mystery has emerged, the kind of thing that this group is good at solving.



It's been posted here that the early cars with nudge bars (SWB's) may have had no rubber buffers on the bumper guards, just as mine is at the moment. And that the later cars did have rubber buffers. It's also been said that you can just take the buffers off of the front bumper guards and install them on the back. That the back bumper guards have three holes in them for the rubber buffers and the nudge bar will mount in the top hole (after you enlarge it a bit) and the buffers from the front will mount in the middle and bottom holes.

I checked it out and the middle and bottom holes in my original rear bumper guard don't match up with the bolts on the front buffers. But... Kenik bought a pair of rubber buffers from Stoddard that he understood were used when the nudge bar was installed. After I bought his nudge bar he sent them to me to check them out. They are very small (much smaller than the front buffers) but the bolts match up with the holes in the rear bumper guards. Here's a picture with the rear buffer on the left, the front buffer in the middle and one that Kenik received on the right:




I've never seen buffers like the little ones - could they be the right ones and were used just for this purpose?

Cheers,
JohnA

[s2guy]

John,

Any idea what the part # is for the buffer on the right that goes with the nudge bar? I don't think that I've ever seen it before.

Thanks.

Mike

[kenikh]

The small ones are odd - I bought them several years ago from a guy who said he bought them from Stoddard and that they were front bumperette rubbers. I never tried fitting them until this exercise. Anyone who knows, please sign on!

[Soterik]

I have the rear crash bar on my 72S, and it's on the original window sticker...

The rubber is shaped like the middle one... never have seen the one on the right.

Eric

[Ringmeister]

One on the right looks like it's from a BMW.