I am having trouble getting my hood to close properly. I can get the driver side to align and close. But the passenger side wont close properly. Is there a way to align this? Also my hood wont stay up when open. Is the springs at fault? Or the hood? My truck is starting to get there. woo hoo.

Jerry

 

the hood should stay up, probably worn out springs. When you say it won't align, is the hood hitting the fenders? what's not aligning? Also I'm assuming this is a 53-56 F100?

 

I will be monitoring this thread...I plan to swap over a hood on my 53 next spring. I want to make it fit nice.

 

Sorry 55 ford f100. The hood when you close it you have to pull forward to locate the hood latch. And the rear of the hood sits up like its not aligned. The passenger side hits the front cowl and fender . Also the hood wont stay up on its own.

Jerry

 

Sounds like a worn out spring or the hinge is offset putting too much compression in the spring. The original hinges are a pain, I planned on sing to a custom hinge until I saw the ridiculous price. For that money id rather have a front tilt.

 

I have posted a number of times how to get the hood hinges to work properly. Do a search on here my user name and hood hinges.

 

ok so whats the plan of attack on my hood? I am going to take off the hood. what should i look for on the hinges? Is there a test for bad springs? Is there something I am missing? I am assuming that because the hood wont stay up by itself means bad hinges and springs.

Jerry

 

1. go to the blue band above.
2. click "search v" in the center of the blue band
3. click advanced search in the dropdown menu
4. put "hood hinges" in keywords (alternate search keywords: "hood hokey pokey")
5. put AXracer in user name
6. highlite this forum in the search forum box
7. click search.
8. read thru the posts until you find one or more of several where I refer to adjusting the hood, the hidden hinge pivot, and the picture of it in my gallery.

Your hinges, springs may be damaged from abuse but more likely one or more of the pivots are stiff or frozen, especially the hidden one and/or the hinges are not installed properly. If there is not a safety wire thru the attachment bolts the later is a good possibility. Third possibility is most don't understand how they worked when new. They never held the hood open more than ~ 45*, enough to check fluids etc without wind catching it and folding it back against the windshield or being up too high to reach to close. It will open further for extensive under hood work, but you will need to prop it open with a broomstick etc to keep it up that high.