Well, the big melt is underway here. Daytime temperatures have crept up to 60 degrees F at mid day, and my lawn is slowly emerging from its white shroud. (Sounds poetic, but Damn! I hate winter.) I have my new "lathe room" all drywalled, taped and plastered and painted, and the base for my new lathe is supposed to arrive here tomorrow. ---This will be good, as the drip pan for the lathe is really part of the base, and without it I can't really do any machining with a lubricant/coolant, or it goes all over the floor. Hopefully, I will soon drag this thread back to what I originally started it as, about installing the new Gennie Shifter" headlight bar and changing out my aftermarket front fender support brackets for a set of originals. I will be using the new lathe to machine a pair of oval, tapered shims from aluminum to fill the gap at the end of their ill fitting headlight bar. They advertise these bars as being universal fits, but they really seem to only fit the fender curvature on the 30/31 series fenders, not the 28/29 series which I have on the roadster pickup. Since I have the headlights apart anyways, I will be replacing the 7" sealed beams with some kind of direct replacement Halogen headlights. Thank you Irelands Child for your info placed earlier in this thread.