Zr1 Hood Support
10-31-2007, 08:52 PM
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Zr1 Hood Support
I had a problem with the hood support on my 90 ZR1 not going to the locking position. It appeared that the spring that pushes the bottom section over to lock the hood in the up position was not there. I disengaged the bottom section from the bottom support, and picked it up over the top section, to see if the spring had fallen down in the lower section. After several attemps at retriving the spring was unsuccessful, I connected it back up and it started working perfectly. Has anyone had a problem like this, and what did they do to solve it?I'm afraid that it will happen again if I don't do something.
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11-01-2007, 09:31 AM
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Once you get the hood about half way up it should open the rest of the way and lock into place by itself, I was manually pushing the orange piece over to hold it up. Then I replaced the hydraulic support and it was like night and day, similiar to replacing the rear hatch struts.
11-01-2007, 09:37 PM
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Thanks for the response. The strut picks up the hood OK, and it holds it up, but the orange piece wouldn't automatically go over to the locked position. Does the one from ZIP or MAD have the orange piece on it. The one on my 86 Pace Car is not the same as the ZR1, and I want to keep it like the original one.
11-02-2007, 01:58 AM
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Thanks for the response. The strut picks up the hood OK, and it holds it up, but the orange piece wouldn't automatically go over to the locked position. Does the one from ZIP or MAD have the orange piece on it. The one on my 86 Pace Car is not the same as the ZR1, and I want to keep it like the original one.
11-03-2007, 07:29 PM
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I have a similar question on the hood support. I know this will sound stupid, but I just got my car today and got home and put the hood up. Now I can seem to get the support to go down. I don't have an owners manual, so how do I get the hood support to close? I looked and don't have any kind of orange piece. I have a 92 ZR-1.
11-05-2007, 11:33 PM
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Thanks for the response. The strut picks up the hood OK, and it holds it up, but the orange piece wouldn't automatically go over to the locked position. Does the one from ZIP or MAD have the orange piece on it. The one on my 86 Pace Car is not the same as the ZR1, and I want to keep it like the original one.
