elastomeric bumper repair

[superbirdtom]

  Im working on a 69 GTO and the nose has some cracks in it.  Im sure it is close in material to the mopar elasto bumpers.  Anyone have any experience repairing these and what product they used.  Down the road I don't want expansion contraction to cause whatever goop to fail .  any help is appreciated   thanks!  Tom

[hemi-hampton]

When I did this Judge it had the same problem. I ended up using a 2 part epoxy Lord Fusor to coat the whole bumper. Since this was about 10 years ago I don't remember the part #. I do remember it was one part white & one part black that turned dark gray after mixing in gun. Also remember it dried hard as a rock and about impossible to sand & very time consuming. Boss told me hurry up & get it sanded, he's only charging the customer $50k he said. The bullshitter charged him $150k. LEON.

[funknut]

beautiful car, you do impressive work!

[ACUDANUT]

When I did this Judge it had the same problem. I ended up using a 2 part epoxy Lord Fusor to coat the whole bumper. Since this was about 10 years ago I don't remember the part #. I do remember it was one part white & one part black that turned dark gray after mixing in gun. Also remember it dried hard as a rock and about impossible to sand & very time consuming. Boss told me hurry up & get it sanded, he's only charging the guy $50k. The bullshitter charged him $150k. LEON.

He charged him 150k      

[hemi-hampton]

On the 65 GTO Convertible my old boss charged him $300k I hear.

[superbirdtom]

When I did this Judge it had the same problem. I ended up using a 2 part epoxy Lord Fusor to coat the whole bumper. Since this was about 10 years ago I don't remember the part #. I do remember it was one part white & one part black that turned dark gray after mixing in gun. Also remember it dried hard as a rock and about impossible to sand & very time consuming. Boss told me hurry up & get it sanded, he's only charging the customer $50k he said. The bullshitter charged him $150k. LEON.

Thanks.  i sure don't want to go the lord fusor way as Im sure hat worked for you but you lose all flexibility.  I just found a couple kits online for enduro bumpers so ill try those for the two cracks. google is a wonderful thing. i just wanted to know as theirs many repair kits out there if anyone can reccoment one over the other.   The judge looks great and that level of restoration is easily 125 150k.  If the car was a #10 body to start with cut that in half  but as we know most are shot and the hours involved at shop rate are a lot!

[Charger-Bodie]

3m easy sand.

[superbirdtom]

I looked it up and it might be the answer. I will get some and try it out.   I use the 3m panel bonding - flexible seam sealer-and self leveling seam sealer all the time with good results.  Thanks for the info!

[Magnumcharger]

There is a good video on Youtube showing a GTO elastomeric bumper repair procedure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMBawp3czY0

[Silver R/T]

Ive repaired some plastic bumpers and Ive successfully used SEM 68422 on cracks. It stays flexible enough to flex with bumper as needed. For filler I've used USC 26037. It stays flexible, sand easy and designed to be applied to plastic bumpers.