Tilt front Clip
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Tilt front Clip
i saw a truck in a car show that had the whole frount fender, hood, and grill tilt backwords. I was just wondering if this is a kit that you can buy or if it is faddercated (witch i,d prefer). Also wondering if anyone had any drawings or thoughts about doing this. Looks cool and makes working on it alot easyer(i think).
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By "tilt backwords" you mean towards the front bumper? It could be done but it would be a lot of work. Hmm you would probly have to make the hood and fenders into one piece and reinforce the hinge points. The core support & grill assembly would be the big issue if you make it tilt with the rest of the front (wich you would just about have to) then your gonna have to deal with the radiator tilting or figure out a way to remount it . Course your gonna want to make it a hydralic tilt cause it's gonna wiegh a ton.
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Do a search in this forum for "tilt clip". There's a lot of posts regarding this already. It can be done fairly easy with the parts you already have and a little patience. I'll be doing it to my truck in the spring, as soon as it's warm enough for me to paint.
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These are some older pix, but you get the idea. I can now open the hood normally and tilt the whole clip forward. Making it is relatively easy, but figuring it out from scratch takes some time.
The only parts of this that are not stock are the latches and the hinges. Latches came out of Corolla hach backs, and the hinges I fabbed up with steel angles and some plate steel from the local junk yard.
Things to consider for this project:
Radiator has to be mounted to the frame and not the rad. support.
Battery, starter solenoid, windshield washer, and anything else on the inner fenders have to be relocate.
Fenders have to be cut.
There are more things of course, but this is all I can think of right now. Total cost of the project was under $50.
Kevin K.
These are some older pix, but you get the idea. I can now open the hood normally and tilt the whole clip forward. Making it is relatively easy, but figuring it out from scratch takes some time.
The only parts of this that are not stock are the latches and the hinges. Latches came out of Corolla hach backs, and the hinges I fabbed up with steel angles and some plate steel from the local junk yard.
Things to consider for this project:
Radiator has to be mounted to the frame and not the rad. support.
Battery, starter solenoid, windshield washer, and anything else on the inner fenders have to be relocate.
Fenders have to be cut.
There are more things of course, but this is all I can think of right now. Total cost of the project was under $50.
Kevin K.
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