Hood Struts
 

Stupid question re C-6:

Can I assume that if the hood fails to remain open that the hydraulic struts have gone bad? If not, what has failed?

I think your analysis is correct.

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Yes...you are right. And probably not both, only one.:thumbs:

Okay - thanks people. That's what I thought, but didn't want to order a strut(s) only to find it's something else.

Change both.

When you buy some, hopefully from Gene Culley, post here how much they cost. Thanx in advance.

I respectfully disagree...they rarely fail this early, so it is probably just a bad strut, the other one will probably last for a long time like most of them do. No reason to replace a perfectly good one.:thumbs:

What I have done is remove both and manually compress both struts. It will be quite obvious which one is bad. The only other thing it could be is you are trying to keep your hood open when the wind it too high. :thumbs:

Both mine went bad after 3 years. They cost about $30 each.

And that can certainly happen, parts go bad, but judging by the number of mentions of bad struts here and the number of struts out there that are working fine after 10 or more years, it doesn't make sense to me to replace struts that have not yet gone bad. If there was a great deal of labor involved, it would be different. For example, when removing a transmission from the car, it makes sense to check and probably replace the clutch disc as it is an inexpensive part that takes a great deal of labor to replace. With hood struts though, there is no labor penalty, they can be replaced in 5 minutes at any time, so I don't see any reason to replace a strut that is still working correctly.:thumbs:

As I said earlier both of mine were bad. I could compress the old ones with ease. If one was good I would probably have only changed one.

Always replace in pairs.