[Fot] Replacing hood

[Shane Ingate]

Mordy Dunst wrote:

> What I have done is perhaps simpler.  No NUTS nor Bolts to adjust.
>
> I took the hood bracket and drilled out the pin holding the body braket
> from the hood bracket.  Once this was done I realligned the two
> seperated pieces with a 3/8" bolt and welding a 3/8 inch ID  steel  bush
> on either side of the brackets about 1/2" on either side.  I got an
> appropriately long 3/8 PIP pin and reassembled using the removable pin.
> Intially you need to place the hood and braket as you would normally and
> align.  But, this is done only this initial time.  When I want to remove
> the hood I just take out the PIP pin holding the two bracket halves from
> the from the open Head Lite opening.  All remains aligned.

This is what I did on my TR6.  It still takes 2 people to hold the hood,
but it takes 30-60 sec to remove/attach.  And the hood always stays aligned.

Shane Ingate in NM


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