Grille Bar Fastening

[bkahler]

I'm just about ready to bolt the grille bars to the front nose piece.  I think the new weld nuts came out ok.  The beads aren't that great but the will hold.  I was really trying to keep from ruining the paint where it shows which fortunately I was successful at.  I need to do a little grinding and then I'll rattle can the exposed metal.  When I bought the paint I had them mix up enough to fill a couple of rattle cans for situations just like this

 

My question is should there be some sort of rubber gasket between the nut plate and the nose piece where the bolts are?  I don't really like the idea of metal to metal.

 

Thanks!

 

Brad

 

 

[ggdad1951]

you can, but the factory did not.