Boomer
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All the spinach you can eat.....call now....
It finally dried up enough this afternoon to get after the hood on the 300 again. Have already tried to install the hinge on the pivot then engage the torsion bar afterward. No way. So this time I tried hooking the torsion bar into the hinge plate with it installed only on the hood. Had to beat the hinge first to get some of the twist out of it. This has happened a few times before I got the car.
So I got the cowl cover off, hinge straightened out (more or less), bolted to the hood, and wrestled the hood around to get the torsion bar roller into its channel. Success, but! I can't get the hinge back far enough to engage the pivot point. If I lift the hood up as high as I can it will force the roller to the front of the channel like the other side, but at that point between the angle and weight of the hood, I just don't have the snot to load the torsion bar enough.
Looked through the service manual and found some diagrams of the hinges, but no procedure for hooking it all together, though I may have missed it. Thought about tying rope around it and figuring out a way to winch it back, but that seemed a bit.....foolish, as well as dangerous. That's when Popeye's bowling pin forearms came to mind.
A couple photos below of where I left off earlier. Need to mow and catch up on other chores tomorrow, but would really like to get at least one small victory on this project before the weekend is over. Still plenty to do after this, but it's the most annoying issue. It's running like crap right now, so being able to work under the hood without fear of death is a must.
It finally dried up enough this afternoon to get after the hood on the 300 again. Have already tried to install the hinge on the pivot then engage the torsion bar afterward. No way. So this time I tried hooking the torsion bar into the hinge plate with it installed only on the hood. Had to beat the hinge first to get some of the twist out of it. This has happened a few times before I got the car.
So I got the cowl cover off, hinge straightened out (more or less), bolted to the hood, and wrestled the hood around to get the torsion bar roller into its channel. Success, but! I can't get the hinge back far enough to engage the pivot point. If I lift the hood up as high as I can it will force the roller to the front of the channel like the other side, but at that point between the angle and weight of the hood, I just don't have the snot to load the torsion bar enough.
Looked through the service manual and found some diagrams of the hinges, but no procedure for hooking it all together, though I may have missed it. Thought about tying rope around it and figuring out a way to winch it back, but that seemed a bit.....foolish, as well as dangerous. That's when Popeye's bowling pin forearms came to mind.
A couple photos below of where I left off earlier. Need to mow and catch up on other chores tomorrow, but would really like to get at least one small victory on this project before the weekend is over. Still plenty to do after this, but it's the most annoying issue. It's running like crap right now, so being able to work under the hood without fear of death is a must.