Some of you might have seen my previous thread on the hood hinge/spring problem I was having... hood was not staying up.
Had to trade in my old orig hinges and springs because the pivot points on the origs were shot. Hood ws not adjusting any more, although it stayed up fine.
Soooo I had the misfortune of purchasing aftermarket "correct" repro hinges and "GM Replacement" springs.
To cut to the chase the hood NEVER stayed up at all with these brand new parts.
I tried many different combinations of shortening springs, pinging the hinges, all to no avail.
The company I bought the hinges told me , "there is nothing wrong with your hinges, it's a "dumb" part that can not fail and cannot be causing your problem. There must be something wrong with your hood." And furthermore inform me that I was the only person they ever had complain about them. In addition the refused to take them back since i had already installed them.
After weeks of hassles I found a used set of hinges and springs that were tight and cleaned up pretty.
Since the "dumb" part had to be good, I first installed the orig springs on the repro'd hinges. NO GO. Same deal. The cursing began. I made up some new ones too.
Then along with my $35 an hour body man we put on the first of the two old stock hinges. Bingo. The hood, even with just one of the good hinges stayed put wherever i put it. With two it was just great.
So the moral of the story is: Chinese repro hinges DO NOT WORK. The metal sucks, and the pivot points are crap. They flex, they bend, just enough to relax the tension on the spring. Those pieces of junk cost me a lot in time and money. I had my body man here 4 times trying differnt things. Not cheap. Not to mention the cost of the faulty crap. All in all between the two sets of hinges, 3 sets of springs , and my guys time, I have over $650.00 invested in getting my hood to stay up.
Had to trade in my old orig hinges and springs because the pivot points on the origs were shot. Hood ws not adjusting any more, although it stayed up fine.
Soooo I had the misfortune of purchasing aftermarket "correct" repro hinges and "GM Replacement" springs.
To cut to the chase the hood NEVER stayed up at all with these brand new parts.
I tried many different combinations of shortening springs, pinging the hinges, all to no avail.
The company I bought the hinges told me , "there is nothing wrong with your hinges, it's a "dumb" part that can not fail and cannot be causing your problem. There must be something wrong with your hood." And furthermore inform me that I was the only person they ever had complain about them. In addition the refused to take them back since i had already installed them.
After weeks of hassles I found a used set of hinges and springs that were tight and cleaned up pretty.
Since the "dumb" part had to be good, I first installed the orig springs on the repro'd hinges. NO GO. Same deal. The cursing began. I made up some new ones too.
Then along with my $35 an hour body man we put on the first of the two old stock hinges. Bingo. The hood, even with just one of the good hinges stayed put wherever i put it. With two it was just great.
So the moral of the story is: Chinese repro hinges DO NOT WORK. The metal sucks, and the pivot points are crap. They flex, they bend, just enough to relax the tension on the spring. Those pieces of junk cost me a lot in time and money. I had my body man here 4 times trying differnt things. Not cheap. Not to mention the cost of the faulty crap. All in all between the two sets of hinges, 3 sets of springs , and my guys time, I have over $650.00 invested in getting my hood to stay up.
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: Roy
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