73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks > Body, Glass & Paint
Hood hinges with struts
VileZambonie:
Lube and paying attention when you close the hood makes all the difference!
1980K20:
--- Quote from: JohnnyPopper on September 12, 2021, 01:54:49 PM ---"cheaper than a third hood" ?? ???
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Yeah, hood #1 came with the truck already popped. Maybe that one doesn't count...
Hood #2 was at the painter, nearly done, installed for dry fit before painting blue and the helper didn't pay close enough attention closing and popped that one.
Hood #3 is supposedly a much stronger hood, but even with good lube, those hinges are wonky and it's at risk.
Villezombonie, thanks for the link to cvf! That's my front end dress up kit from them. Awesome materials and customer service. I do wonder about replacing the struts every ten years. Their cost is quite a bit better than some of the others, I'll look into it further.
Thanks,
Mark
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JohnnyPopper:
I bought a cowl hood from a fellow SB lover, never been used.
Came with those straps to keep the hood from popping. Probably frowned upon/voted against by some, as these hoods are supposed to pancake instead of coming through the windshield.
I haven't installed it yet, open to thoughts on viability.
$200.00 ;D
SilverMiner:
Go ahead and install the straps - they are cheap insurance against a stranger closing your hood improperly.
And if you are concerned about the hood coming through the window, take a moment to measure the width of the window opening versus the width of the hood and you'll realize how improbable that situation is. GM clearly designed the hood to fold, but the decapitation theory doesn't make sense to me. It would mean the GM boys designed a non-decapitation hood for an imaginary event yet saw no hazard with installing side-saddle fuel tanks.
A real engineering reason existed for the folding hood, we just don't know what it was.
--- Quote from: JohnnyPopper on September 14, 2021, 07:47:30 PM ---I bought a cowl hood from a fellow SB lover, never been used.
Came with those straps to keep the hood from popping. Probably frowned upon/voted against by some, as these hoods are supposed to pancake instead of coming through the windshield.
I haven't installed it yet, open to thoughts on viability.
$200.00 ;D
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VileZambonie:
--- Quote from: SilverMiner on September 15, 2021, 02:59:43 PM ---Go ahead and install the straps - they are cheap insurance against a stranger closing your hood improperly.
And if you are concerned about the hood coming through the window, take a moment to measure the width of the window opening versus the width of the hood and you'll realize how improbable that situation is. GM clearly designed the hood to fold, but the decapitation theory doesn't make sense to me. It would mean the GM boys designed a non-decapitation hood for an imaginary event yet saw no hazard with installing side-saddle fuel tanks.
A real engineering reason existed for the folding hood, we just don't know what it was.
--- Quote from: JohnnyPopper on September 14, 2021, 07:47:30 PM ---
I bought a cowl hood from a fellow SB lover, never been used.
Came with those straps to keep the hood from popping. Probably frowned upon/voted against by some, as these hoods are supposed to pancake instead of coming through the windshield.
I haven't installed it yet, open to thoughts on viability.
$200.00 ;D
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The stops at the cowl and the failure point were definitely designed for safety. The saddle tank debacle was a scam "FAKE NEWS". Unfortunately, the folding point in the hood was just lost the arm-wrestling match with the crappy hood hinge design all too often.
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