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Good tilt kit is done. Spent 12 hours today trying to adjust it to get the hood to fit a little better and I feel like I wasted 12 hours. I guess it could be defenders that need to be aligned. I’ve never had them apart. The rollers that I made I think I need to make the groove just a little bit wider as they do seem to bind just a little bit. It’s either that or the tilting mechanism that binds. Something isn’t quite right. I had to modify a few things I don’t know what went wrong.
Measured both sides before drilling holes to make sure they were equal.
The hood wouldn’t close and sit down all the way in the front and sound like was hitting metal on metal. So I put some paint on that to see if it would transfer over.
And you can see here that it was hitting this piece on both sides. So I had to notch them out, so I’m not sure what went wrong there.
passenger side is extremely tight. Driver side has a big gap.
On my '53 I have the same thing. the drivers side has a bigger gap than the passenger side. I can make them equal but the hood to cowl line then becomes off. There is only so much you can do to get the gaps right. After a while it becomes good enough.
I did not have a rubbing problem so not sure what that is. Perhaps the front is coming down to low.
This rubber piece under hood hits and keeps the front up a bit. I’ve bent it back with a hammer some to try and clear
I also don’t like how far these rollers go in. I thought it would be a lot more. Is that normal
that’s all the way closed
That rubber I didn't use on my pickup because it seemed to stiff and did the same thing, on my panel it's no problem. Better softer rubber. Guide wheel in the bracket is about the same as mine which surprised me too but is more than enough to hold the hood in place.
A lot of the new rubber isn't as soft as what the original stuff was. The new one I had was Dennis Carpenter's . I'll likely run into the same problem with this one. I wonder if soaking it in something would soften it up..
abe the problem is the rubber contacts the pivot bar of the forward flip hood kits..The rubber was a Dennis Carpenter purchase as well but somehow the one for the pickup must have been from a different Chinese plant..
I’ve definitely missed a few things on your build thread. I love that tailgate. Was that a reproduction and then you just cut it down? Dad’s letting me take his original 56 Mercury tailgate for the time being.
Picked up a sheet of three-quarter inch domestic oak plywood. Ripped it down into seven boards instead of eight. I screwed up a little bit and I should’ve went a little bit wider. But I’ve made it work. I just have to make the two side flanges a little wider than I was hoping. I also made an end cap to cover up the back end. Turned out pretty good considering I’ve bent it in the vice with a hammer. Spent some time tapping it as straight as I could. I think it turned out pretty decent.
