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| | | Hood Help! | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 pooh-bah | OP pooh-bah Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 | OK, in readers' rides I posted I got an aftermarket hood for my 05 Ford complete with scoops. Here's the problem, I put it on tonight, easy, four bolts and the old one's off, same four and the new one's on. Then I spent the next 2 1/2 hours trying to get it to close. I got it lined up but when I try to shut it, it goes as far as the safety latch and no matter what I try to do I can not get it to drop down the rest of the way to hook shut! Any ideas? It doesn't seem to be hitting anything, just cann't get it right.
2005 E350 Turbo Diesel Why is it that when I press 1 for English, I still can not understand the person on the other end????
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 Vanner Extraordinaire | Vanner Extraordinaire Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 | Can you adjust the bump stops down. crank them all the way in, the gradually bring them back up.
Howard "Nickels and Dymes" Midwest Vans Ltd. Vanfest Staff Ontario Federation of Vanners Rep since 1978 National Truck-In Board since 1986 First van event-a hall party...March, 1974...ain't been right since!!!!!
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 Madman! | Madman! Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 | Jump up and down on it Try moving the hinge location forward or back a bit (they are slotted right?) It may be that the safety is not centered in the opening. | | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 pooh-bah | OP pooh-bah Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 | Tried both, had the bump stops all the way screwed in, and the hinges (at the body, it's the only place they're slotted) adjusted several dif. ways. no luck. It's like the latching assembly won't go down far enough to catch. Didn't try standing on it but I did let it slam as hard as I could and also tried pushing it down with as much force as I could. I used those same four bolts and took it back off for now, will look at it when it's not a hundred + degrees out. I also took several things off the engine to see if they were in the way, like the power steering fluid container mount and stuff like that. Ahhhh, the trials and tribulations of the person that hates to have the same look as everyone else.
2005 E350 Turbo Diesel Why is it that when I press 1 for English, I still can not understand the person on the other end????
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 pooh-bah | OP pooh-bah Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 | I think Monday I'll call Dynamax in Elkhart and see if I can talk to the person that actually put them on the vehicles to see if they have any thoughts on the subject. That's a polite way of saying that I'm gonna call them and see if they can tell me how the Hell to get it to work!
2005 E350 Turbo Diesel Why is it that when I press 1 for English, I still can not understand the person on the other end????
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 Vanner Extraordinaire | Vanner Extraordinaire Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 | It's going to be something that is so obvious that you missed it. The temps don't help, either!
Howard "Nickels and Dymes" Midwest Vans Ltd. Vanfest Staff Ontario Federation of Vanners Rep since 1978 National Truck-In Board since 1986 First van event-a hall party...March, 1974...ain't been right since!!!!!
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 Vanner Extraordinaire | Vanner Extraordinaire Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 | Is the lip on the hood hitting the headlights/grill? maybe needs sanding before paint??
Howard "Nickels and Dymes" Midwest Vans Ltd. Vanfest Staff Ontario Federation of Vanners Rep since 1978 National Truck-In Board since 1986 First van event-a hall party...March, 1974...ain't been right since!!!!!
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 21,211 Likes: 25 Supreme Master | Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 21,211 Likes: 25 | Can you shim the latching assembly so it sits up a little further?
Nate Breece | | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 Madman! | Madman! Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 | Did you remove the beer can from on top of the intercooler | | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 pooh-bah | OP pooh-bah Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 | Damn! I knew I should have set that pony keg someplace else! Headlight or grill assembly isn't in the way, cann't get it down quite far enough to even wory about hitting that. I am thinking of looking at the edges though to see if they hang down further than stock and not allowing the hood to go down any further, I thought of looking at that last night but have not looked at it yet. I'm still going to call Dynamax tomorrow to see if they have any ideas.
2005 E350 Turbo Diesel Why is it that when I press 1 for English, I still can not understand the person on the other end????
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 Vanner Extraordinaire | Vanner Extraordinaire Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 | They will probably suggest that you buy one of their motorhomes....
Howard "Nickels and Dymes" Midwest Vans Ltd. Vanfest Staff Ontario Federation of Vanners Rep since 1978 National Truck-In Board since 1986 First van event-a hall party...March, 1974...ain't been right since!!!!!
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 774 old hand | old hand Joined: May 2001 Posts: 774 | Check the edges, especially by rear of the hood as that is where it will hit first typically, the lower the hood goes, the farther foward you probably need to check. Also, get something like silly putty and make small balls or clyniders out of it and place it in places where you suspect the clearance issue might be and then slowly close the hood. Reopen and see which ones were smashed. | | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 9,854 Likes: 8 Festerus Vannimus | Festerus Vannimus Joined: May 2007 Posts: 9,854 Likes: 8 | ummmn, can you remove the latching system and shut it completely then?
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| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 pooh-bah | OP pooh-bah Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 | Fester, as in hood pins? Hmmmm hadn't thought of that.
2005 E350 Turbo Diesel Why is it that when I press 1 for English, I still can not understand the person on the other end????
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,168 Vanaholic | Vanaholic Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,168 | Can you shim the latching assembly so it sits up a little further? that is what I was going to suggest... you may need to shim the catch pin for the latch up a little, the hood may have a slightly different pitch to it.. I know my factory hood takes a little extra to get it to latch due to some of the hardware that gets relocated elsewhere when BB put in. | | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 pooh-bah | OP pooh-bah Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 | It's on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Pics to follow sometime this weekend. Lots of work, rubber seal at the rear of hood in firewall area went away, hammered a couple spots flatter at the rear edge of the top bellow where that rubber went, relocated pisser juice hose, shimmed the hood latch OUT a ways and let it slam. Closes and lines up. Put the bug shield on it and didn't close......slammed it a little harder and it closed again.....then I noticed it didn't close after the bug shield addition because now the bug shield hits pretty good on the top edge of the headlight blackouts. Oh well, that's a worry for another day, I'll fix it when I take it back off to paint it!
2005 E350 Turbo Diesel Why is it that when I press 1 for English, I still can not understand the person on the other end????
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 9,854 Likes: 8 Festerus Vannimus | Festerus Vannimus Joined: May 2007 Posts: 9,854 Likes: 8 |
My van : 1989 Ford E-150 Econoline, currently named “WOLF-DEN IIâ€
Founder & President of Sooner or Later United Truckers and PROUD TO BE A S.L.U.T. ! !
| | | Re: Hood Help! | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 pooh-bah | OP pooh-bah Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,007 Likes: 46 | Pics are in the reader's ride section!
2005 E350 Turbo Diesel Why is it that when I press 1 for English, I still can not understand the person on the other end????
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