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Posted by: jsayre914 Oct 26 2008, 02:52 PM

My car was clipped befor I bought it. good possibility the front hood is not original. Respray... so is there a way to get it to line up at the corners. The middle is tight as possible, but the hood itself does not meet at either side, I dont want to try to bend it a little and then I need another hood.

anyone eles have this problem, how did you fix..


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Posted by: KELTY360 Oct 26 2008, 03:35 PM

Show the body gaps at the cowl.

Posted by: r_towle Oct 26 2008, 04:13 PM

It can be bent to a point...then it kinks.
Show the underside of the lid...lets see if there is already a kink.

Rich

Posted by: markb Oct 26 2008, 04:36 PM

Is there room to move the latch farther down into the body? It's only 3 bolts.

Posted by: sww914 Oct 26 2008, 04:50 PM

I've done it many many times on many kinds of cars, in fact Markb and I did it to his rear trunk lid recently. It's scary but I have never ruined one. You put a short piece of 2X4 or 4X4 in the middle to block the hood up a bit and 2 people push down. It is important that one person mostly holds down and the other does most of the pushing. If both people push at the same time you can't feel what's going on and you have less control. Take your time, push a little bit, check your work, push a bit more and check it again.

Posted by: j-mccar3 Oct 26 2008, 07:35 PM

open the hood put your foot on the bumper were the low spot and use your knee as a pivot and one hand on either side of the hood and slowly flex the outer sides of the hood down it is like adjusting a door that has a window frame for air noise you may have to do this a few times to get it right if you flex the hood to much with out moving your pivot point (your knee) you will kink your hood and you are screwed then check the adjustment on your latch

Posted by: zambezi Oct 26 2008, 08:07 PM

QUOTE(sww914 @ Oct 26 2008, 05:50 PM)

Posted by: markb Oct 26 2008, 09:32 PM

QUOTE(j-mccar3 @ Oct 26 2008, 05:35 PM)

Posted by: jmill Oct 27 2008, 08:53 AM

Be very, very careful. It gives very little warning before it kinks. BTDT.

Posted by: SirAndy Oct 27 2008, 01:47 PM

Just use your hands. Done it many times. Open the Hood, grab the front center with one hand and pull the edges to where you want them.

Pull slow and steady. You can feel the metal move and you can get it back into shape in no time.
Andy

Posted by: ericread Oct 27 2008, 01:57 PM

QUOTE(markb @ Oct 26 2008, 08:32 PM)

QUOTE(j-mccar3 @ Oct 26 2008, 05:35 PM)

open the hood put your foot on the bumper were the low spot and use your knee as a pivot and one hand on either side of the hood and slowly flex the outer sides of the hood down it is like adjusting a door that has a window frame for air noise you may have to do this a few times to get it right if you flex the hood to much with out moving your pivot point (your knee) you will kink your hood and you are screwed then check the adjustment on your latch

Wow, use some punctuation.

Posted by: klikkid3 Oct 27 2008, 02:50 PM

I love how others on here have the same problems I do, my hood is the exact same way as the pics. That fix sounds scary as hell but I will try this weekend. Thanks for the post.

Posted by: r_towle Oct 27 2008, 05:55 PM

Put a 2 foot tall 4*4 under the middle of the front brace of the hood.
Gently apply pressure to both sides.
Gently means it should take about 15-20 tries to get it perfect.
Between each try....test to see how it fits.
Its slow and gently and nothing bad will happen.
If you go to fast you loose.

Rich