Replacement 99 Fog Light Grommets?

[RC57]

Has anyone replaced the grommets holding their 99 fog light brackets together? The fog light bracket is two sub-brackets held together by a single bolt and two brown grommets. The grommets on my left bracket have cracked, allowing the foglight to move, causing the beam to bounce around.

The local dealer was unable to pull up a part number for the grommets. The parts diagram shows the entire bracket assembly only, without the grommets broken out. Does anyone know of a part number or source for these grommets? Replacing the whole bracket seems overkill, wallet-wise.

-RC

 

[SkidPalace]

HA!
Too funny. I was waiting for someone to bring this topic up.
My left fog has been rattling for a couple of years every time I slam the door (one of the two bushings were missing). Drove me nuts.
When I was replacing my bulbs with Hella Yellow Stars, I popped into the garage to look for a replacement.
Sitting on the front of my toolbox was a pencil eraser. A lightbulb floating over my head blinked on and I set to convert this pencil tip eraser into a fog light bushing. You know the type, the cone or mushroom shaped eraser thingies that fit over your old worn out pencil erasers.
All I had to do was cut the tip off the eraser. The stud on the fog light bracket fit nicely into the hole left after cutting off the tip, and the pencil end of the eraser fit snugly into the hole the cracked bushing used to be in.
The fog light bolted back in tight as a drum.
I wish I took a picture, but believe me it worked and it took all of 10 seconds. You should be able to fab up some bushings out of pretty much any soft material laying around your garage.
I was hoping to share my eraser mod with someone!

 

[RC57]

Pencil erasers? I'd guess they will cut through by the sheet metal bracket after a while. How long have you had them in place? They're real easy to change if I buy a box of 20 at the office supply.

 

[SkidPalace]

Pencil erasers? I'd guess they will cut through by the sheet metal bracket after a while. How long have you had them in place? They're real easy to change if I buy a box of 20 at the office supply.

Yes, I agree. It has only been on for a couple of weeks, but I expect that it will last a year or so since it is mashed in there pretty tight. I don't imagine that there is any wiggle to speak of. Remember, one of the two plastic bushings are still in place on my truck.
However, I really think you can McGuyver something out of household items and have it hold for a long time. Just pull out your right side fog and try to duplicate the bushing.
I'd bet a plastic flange nut exists down at the hardware store that will drop right into the hole and have the right sized thru hole to boot.