Joe K

Mine are obviously worn out so I ordered a couple from Rock Auto. Should receive them within the next few days. Any tips or tricks on installing them. No service manual has anything about them that I've found. Know their not difficult but figured I'd ask. TIA.

Joe K

JCrock

I had to disconnect the hood prop to allow the hood to open a bit farther and allow me to install the struts since it's near impossible to compress the strut while you're trying to install it. Otherwise, it's pretty straight forward.

xrav22

Be carefull not to loose the little parts. Running off to find them will take way longer than the job. I too had to remove the support to open the hood a tad further.

pologreen1

I added them to my '90 that had none. I had to drill and put in pins.

Same as above for instruction, raise hood up high and put them on.

The Green Hornet

Anyone have a link for those struts?

Joe K

Here's the link to my 85 at Rock Auto.
https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/...t+support,1404
If your vehicle is different just look it up and they are under "Body" then "Lift Supports".

HTH,

Joe K

81c3

Mine dont have them either... is it worth the time and money to add them?

confab

I think so, yes.. They do hold the hood up (but a strong wind would probably push it over) and they make it much easier to lift.

But the biggest improvement was adding the later model tube support on the driver's side. That thing is AWESOME!

Mine was missing the scissor bracket so I added one of those from a forum member here. It's great!

81c3

Mines a 90, so I have the tube type prop... just noticed its missing both struts.!

confab

Is the big strut supposed to be spring loaded?

Mine is limp and I dunno if it's supposed to be that way or if it is broke?

81c3

No... mines not spring loaded and I dont recall that being the case on any of my past C4's

pologreen1

Earlies c4 had scissors, then they went to 2 small struts if they got them.

I bought a new big strut, and added 2 little ones. The hood almost lifts itself now and it is hard to close. Did what I wanted.

Joe K

My 85 has scissors and the 2 struts. I'm going to see if replacing the struts help because right now the hood is a bear to open. Depending on how well the small struts help I may convert to the large strut too.

pologreen1

based on the location I think they do a lot of the lifting.

hcbph

I checked mine last year, a little hard to open but turned out to be good. I also had to unhook the scissors support to open the hood enough to ease disconnecting.
I did one thing not noted, I tied my hood to the garage rafter so it wouldn't drop by accident or go too far the other way.

QCVette

On my '85 the two small struts were bad. Replacing them helped a lot.

If you have a second person, it makes it easy for them to hold the hood open wider while you change the struts. I don't remember if I had to take off one end of the scissor support or if just holding the hood all the way up was enough.

Good luck.

confab

The big strut helps? Mine is just a locking rod.

Is yours pressurized or spring loaded or something?

pologreen1

\My new one is. My old one was trash and jsut had some crap way to hold it up.

It's worth the money to do all 3 at once. I went through ebay. Might have been though corvette central on there.

81c3

Well, thats news to me.... I never had one off, so I suppose I thought it was normal to not have any "help" from the hood prop.

confab

Me too. I thought it was just a lock!