When you need to replace the hinge itself or save a set of hinges from self-destruction while a hood is removed. Without the hood to prevent them from twisting, often times the springs can damage the hinges by stressing the riveted joints.
By removing the springs before you pull the hood, you can prevent significant damage to an otherwise tight set of hinges. Here are some handy steps:. With the hood as low as you can set it while still reaching the hinge, measure the spring from hook to hook. Having to put metal back on is always tougher.
Take your measurement for the hood spring and mark it out. While we used a piece of angle iron, a piece of flat-stock fits into the spring easier.
A cut-off wheel made the whittling work quick and easy. We elected to trim down one side of the angle-iron to make it slimmer, but retaining the bend does add extra rigidity to the tool. Lower the hood as far down as possible while still maintaining clear access to the hinge, and slide the tool between the hooks of the spring.
Installation is the opposite of removal: lower the hood again, this time a few inches higher than when you removed the spring so that the hooks on the hinge are now closer together. Hang the spring loosely in its perches on the hood hinge. You did it! Maintenance and Tech. User Name Remember Me? View Photos By: chrisgt. The previous owner of my car 84 TD removed the hood springs. No idea why, they were in a box in the trunk with various other parts.
I've searched and searched, and nowhere could I find a lick of information on how to get the darn things back in there.
Could someone post pics of the springs' attachment to the hood levers and to the car? Maybe give a few angles of each so it's obvious, I can't figure out how the stupid things go back on. Or why anyone would even remove them Sorry I saw this thread the other day and then got distracted. You need to be strong! Start swearing and use some gripping pliers This thread has some good pictures to help you out Hood Hinge springs.
Chapter in the FSM has a few hints on the whole hinge removal but has forgotten to mention the spring. Then snap the free end over the hinge. Another way is to stretch the spring off the car then insert flat washers between the coils. You might even be able to get away with bending the spring to insert the washers. Install the spring, close the hood slightly, pull out washers one at a time.
Hmmm, I'm still a bit confused as to where it attaches on the body side. Maybe my spring mounts have been ripped off and that's why they aren't there? There are holes on the outside of the cavity that look like the spring used to be there, but the holes are kinda bent in a way that makes me think that wasn't correct. I'll have to take a picture tomorrow when it's light to show what I'm looking at.
I'm probably missing something glaringly obvious. Also the little catches to hold the hood up vertical, I think that's what they are, have been destroyed. One side is all bent up, the other side the top tab thingy is missing. So some idiot has been in there, nothing a welder can't fix And yes, I know just how much it sucks installing hood springs. A friend and I did it on his car once, some ford product, I seem to recall. We used another vehicle to "tow" the spring out and loop it over the notch.
Worked awesome! I hate to say this but I just have to. Sell the car and get yourself a car. All you have to do to install. No problem. I don't know but maybe the and others may be the same. Go find me a w wagon in the US and we're in business I like the w, but i got a w because they're more simple and the om seemed to be a more reliable engine than the om Except for the ignition binding up today in a parking lot and necessitating a hacksaw to get the steering unlocked so I could drive the stupid thing home, it's been a good car to me.
Another thought on the springs, run a string through the washers so they don't go flying when you want to remove them.
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