Hood Adjustment
Team Owner
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 24,125
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From: Columbia Missouri
Lift your hood, and lay a patch of Duct tape over the hood latch hole where the cone goes through. Do one side at a time. Once you have the tape over it, lower the hood gently so the cone touches the tape. Then lift it back up and see where in the opening the indent is.
If it's not centered, loosen the latch on the firewall, and move it slightly in the directions needed to center the cone in the hood latch.
Once you have the one side, don't change anything else, and move to the other side. Do the same thing so BOTH cones are centered in the hood latches.
Then you can adjust for height if you need to by raising and lowering the bump stops, or threading the cones in and out to raise and lower them.
Racer
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 323
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From: CA
Lift your hood, and lay a patch of Duct tape over the hood latch hole where the cone goes through. Do one side at a time. Once you have the tape over it, lower the hood gently so the cone touches the tape. Then lift it back up and see where in the opening the indent is.
If it's not centered, loosen the latch on the firewall, and move it slightly in the directions needed to center the cone in the hood latch.
Once you have the one side, don't change anything else, and move to the other side. Do the same thing so BOTH cones are centered in the hood latches.
Then you can adjust for height if you need to by raising and lowering the bump stops, or threading the cones in and out to raise and lower them.
If it's not centered, loosen the latch on the firewall, and move it slightly in the directions needed to center the cone in the hood latch.
Once you have the one side, don't change anything else, and move to the other side. Do the same thing so BOTH cones are centered in the hood latches.
Then you can adjust for height if you need to by raising and lowering the bump stops, or threading the cones in and out to raise and lower them.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 8,117
Likes: 104
From: charlotte north carolina
do as db recommends. but also check the cable adjustment that connects the right and left sides for full retraction of the pass side catch. there's a small plate with staggered holes that is attached to the cable. make sure the clip that holds the cable at the center of the hood is metal, not plastic-if that clip breaks there will not be any tension on the cable.
jeff
jeff
Team Owner
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 24,125
Likes: 15
From: Columbia Missouri
Thanks guys. I only know this stuff because I had to do it all on mine. I have a '77, which actually is the later style of latches. They are on the firewall, and only guides go on the hood. I wanted to clean my firewall up so I converted my hood latch system to the old style where the latches are on the hood and the spring towers go on the firewall with no cables. The end result was good, but it was hard. The old style spring towers sit about two inches further apart than the new style, which meant I needed custom brackets.
