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dolla133

Post subject: Just bought a hood from the junkyard

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:23 pm

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I did a post about a month ago about some hood hinges. I couldnt find any so I went to the junk yard and I found out why the hood thats on my car now wont work with struts....

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....these brackets.

The hood only cost me $100 and it came with the hinges and the struts as you can see. it came off a 97 se. I actually bought it about 3 weeks ago. Im just now getting around to posting it to the site.

The hood is green and has a little bit of rust. I want to just take those brackets off and put them on my current hood since its already painted. the brackets seem to be held on with just 4 spot welds. a drill should do the trick and that way I dont have to spend the money to have this hood painted to match the rest of my car.

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bigdog9191999

Post subject: Re: Just bought a hood from the junkyard

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:31 pm

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please post some pics of how they come off. i may have to do this for my cowel hood

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Mater

Post subject: Re: Just bought a hood from the junkyard

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:37 pm

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looks spot welded in 4 places

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dolla133

Post subject: Re: Just bought a hood from the junkyard

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:20 pm

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bigdog9191999 wrote:

please post some pics of how they come off. i may have to do this for my cowel hood

Ok, I hope that those spot welds is all that's holding it on. I'm goin to try it when it gets a lil warmer out

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bigdog9191999

Post subject: Re: Just bought a hood from the junkyard

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:12 pm

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how do plan to try? just pry or, drill out the spots and pry?

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Mater

Post subject: Re: Just bought a hood from the junkyard

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:15 pm

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drill and pry would be the best way to go about it

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dolla133

Post subject: Re: Just bought a hood from the junkyard

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:39 pm

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^^thats exactly how im gonna do it. dont know how im going to attach them to my current hood though.

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bigdog9191999

Post subject: Re: Just bought a hood from the junkyard

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:52 pm

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I see drill a few small holes and use rivets. This is probably what I am going to do

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