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Re: removing hood springs to prevent hood bend
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Originally Posted by burnin oil
Not to disagree but I have bent 2 hoods on the 70s body style trucks. I never used excessive force on them. Hood hinge wear is an issue but the real culprit is stress cracks on the underside of the hood. Both of these trucks were 20 years ago so they wernt nearly so old then.
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The factory design and lack of lubrication of the hinges is the real culprit . Also that the early 73 to 80 hoods kinked because of a safety feature ever notice they always bend at the same place where there is a kink in the reinforcement the kink is so that the hood bends instead of going into the windshield the later hoods were reinforced to not bend as easily and the hinge itself is different .
Umm the 70s trucks were over 20 years old 20 years ago.
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72 c20 custom camper Husky edition,
66 SS396 Chevelle 1964 Hawk, 63 Avanti,62 lark
1969 AMX ,
1968 c20 stepside ,85 K20
1977 Suburban sold
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