67Polara

cant seem to get my hood lined up right, does any 1 know any tricks 2 get it right ?

78D200

Loosen up some of the bolts and see if you have some wiggle room.

1966sportfury

next time you pull the hood. drill a small hole in the hinges thru the underside of the hood. there wont be no problems next time

Archer

67 -

Make sure it's the "hood" that has to be aligned.

May sound silly, but the fenders may be out of alignment as well as the hood "bumpers" (those bolts with the rubber caps near the front end). Another possibility is that you might have a weak hood spring (been there, done that).

Also, Tim is correct, but other than loosening the bolts and trying to realign, sometimes the adjustment isn't in the direction you'd expect at first glance. So exactly what's not lining up???

Archer

SCAMP TRAMP

Agree

67Polara

theres plenty of wiggle room, i know that the fenders are not 100% perfect cuz the car met a deer @ 55, so its just kind of one of those hit or miss things until its right then ?

1966sportfury

pretty much.

Archer

67 -

Yup, you're going to have to play with it and a second or even third pair of hands will REALLY help the process.

Archer

Buffalojoe426

Try cussing at it real good. It might help lol.

67Polara

thanks guys =p
ive tried cussing @ it and threatining it... all failed lol

koondawg_74 roadrunner

How do you tell if you have weak hood springs? Im thinking thats what I have...When I close the hood, the back, near the hinges, wont go down unless you go back and push down. Sorry to hack the thread, I just saw that and was wondering.

Archer

74 rr -

I found out by process of elimination.

Drivers rear corner doesn't fully seat by itself, but responds to a gentle nudge. Sounds familiar, no? Basically ran out of travel on the adjustment bolts (both sides) and playing with the front bumper stops didn't really help. Last nail in the coffin was that the driver's side spring just feels weaker (to manual compression) than the passenger side.

Archer.