<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Chuck,<div><br></div><div>The hinge on the left is bent and the shim is an attempt to fix it. Like you suspect, someone tried to close the lid without releasing the lid support. I have fixed this issue on two Midgets with this procedure - open the latch, stand on the left side of the car and raise the lid a few inches with your right hand. Hold the lid open with your right hand and with the palm of your left hand push down on the lid sharply right at the left hinge location. Do this a few times and you can get the hinge to bend back to the proper shape.</div><div><br></div><div>Rick<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my keyboard</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 29, 2020, at 2:03 AM, crusaderchuck55--- via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">Try to not ramble..too much.</div><div dir="auto">Before the Midget got painted , the trunk lid was not bolted on the hinges. I simply put it on the car and it fit all the way around with no high or low spots. Fast forward. Painted the car with trunk lid off & painted the lid separately. Paint dries and I bolt the lid on and put a new weatherstrip on the body . close the lid and it fits the opening but sits high on the left side. </div><div dir="auto">Today I had the car outside and I was checking my completed work on the fabrication and installation of the fuel cell and noticed something I never saw before. The left hinge is shimmed which would move it downward . I never saw a spridget trunk hinge shimmed. Now I am wondering if it needs more shims to drop the left side of the lid down to fit thr opening it fit before being bolted to the hinges.&nb
sp; </div><div dir="auto">Has anyone had to shim a trunk hinge before?</div><div dir="auto">Yes the car has the telescopic support. And up to today I had guessed I have a bent car from someone trying to close the trunk lid without releasing the support. Now after seeing the left hinge shimmed , I am wondering if it's a shim problem not a bent car body or trunk lid.</div><div dir="auto">1 more thing! The lid that is on the car is not the lid that was with / on the car when Frank bought it. That lid had too much damage to attempt using. </div><div dir="auto">Thoughts? Ideas? It would be nice if the left side of the lid sat down like it did before I bolted it to the hinges....</div><div dir="auto">Chuck</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:9pt;"><i>Sent from my LG Mobile</i></div></div></div>
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