front hinge hood kits
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front hinge hood kits
I am hoping that you good people may be able to help me, i want to fit a front hinged hood kit to early 53/56 f100, i read in the magazines about various brands but want to get the "good oil" from people that have fitted and are using these kits.
Can you advice what you think is the best kit to use?
thanking you daddy cool. ps this is my first post.
Can you advice what you think is the best kit to use?
thanking you daddy cool. ps this is my first post.
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Welcome aboard, this site is a wealth of information and support. I made my own front hinge kit but I have installed one from No Limit and it worked just fine. Semi soon I hope to be posting some pics in my gallery of the set up I made, it may be a help if you are interested in that route.
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56 Effie Aurea hasn't been around in a while but he said his was hinged on a simple pipe inserted through the hood and fenders just behind the peak. FF56 I'd like to see your setup too, I'd like to front hinge mine but I don't like the ones that use the MM mechanism that requires rollers and tracks.
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Chuck, I really need to get these pics in my gallery. I used teflon bushed 32 Ford front spring perches to actually hinge the thing and it is so smooth it makes me giggle like a Brittany Spears fan. There is a threaded heim end attached to the bottom of the hood and a threaded clevis on the hinge pivot. Makes it adjustable for both height and front to rear/left to right gaps. I am working on a much refined system for the rear guide hardware that ''should'' allow me to fill/smooth out the whole area on the cab where the original hinges mounted. More on that later but I WILL get some pics of the hinge pivots. 
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Here is a tech article that was done a couple of years ago. Some of the pics are missing and this one has a modified front crossmember to accommodate the GM cross-flow radiator. It may give you some ideas.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/article/...356_Fords.html
Good Luck!
https://www.ford-trucks.com/article/...356_Fords.html
Good Luck!
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I built my own hindge assy. then bought the billet udate kit so I din't have the guide bars in the rear. with the update kit the track is mounted to the hood and a roller where the orig. hindge mounted at the cab. pics in my gallery
Good luck
Mike
Good luck
Mike
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Mike, the description on the ''new'' roller kit sounds like what I am contemplating could you post some pics of that so I will know if I'm on the right track. Surely would appreciate it, ya hear?
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I'll have to study it in more detail, but I'm not convinced the hood needs to have two motions to it, i.e. front/back and swing up/down. I believe I can design a hinge similar to a modern door hinge or even adapt hinges from a hatchback hatch with a single pivot where the only motion would be up/down.
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Chuck, the red truck in my gallery had a set-up like you are describing, the problem that I had was adjustment and clearances at the back corners. I opened it with convertible top hydraulics, these hoods are heavy and I think the current rage has the mechanical advantage of the pivot. Check Posies.com for a picture of their 4-link flip forward hood, it may give you some ideas, I like the set-up but have never taken the time to try to adapt it to an effie
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Originally Posted by fatfenders56
Chuck, the red truck in my gallery had a set-up like you are describing, the problem that I had was adjustment and clearances at the back corners. I opened it with convertible top hydraulics, these hoods are heavy and I think the current rage has the mechanical advantage of the pivot. Check Posies.com for a picture of their 4-link flip forward hood, it may give you some ideas, I like the set-up but have never taken the time to try to adapt it to an effie
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thanks for the input , i was hoping to get some feedback on the various vendor brands of these kits , i have seen the no limits gear on a truck on display and it did appear to be a nice well engineered kit , has anyone used one of these kits recently?
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Originally Posted by AXracer
I'll have to study it in more detail, but I'm not convinced the hood needs to have two motions to it, i.e. front/back and swing up/down. I believe I can design a hinge similar to a modern door hinge or even adapt hinges from a hatchback hatch with a single pivot where the only motion would be up/down.
Hey, everybody with a single-motion mechanism measure your rear hood to cowl gap. Are you able to crowd it for a tight fit without rubbing paint somewhere on the way up or down? I think it allows for a better tucking of the "hood ears"
And BTW, the typical stock hinge with some age on it is a five motion hinge, so they probably celebrated doing it in only two.
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(fatfenders56)Mike, the description on the ''new'' roller kit sounds like what I am contemplating could you post some pics of that so I will know if I'm on the right track. Surely would appreciate it, ya hear?
I hear ya, I don't have mine on yet, however I took some pics of them at the Nats, I'll get em posted as soon as I can and let ya know
Mike
I hear ya, I don't have mine on yet, however I took some pics of them at the Nats, I'll get em posted as soon as I can and let ya know
Mike
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Someone else recently showed ajustable braces they put on their rear corners so the could adjust the side fit at the cowl. The cowl windlacing as well as the hinge shape that would lift and swing the nose of the hood forward like the front edge of a door moves should keep you from rubbing paint, and I was thinking using gas cylinder lift assist cylinders from a hatchback of a similar weight. I know the rear hatch on my Taurus station wagon is quite heavy without the lift cylinders to help open it, and they would provide stability thru the opening motion and hold it up when open. I am considering using the remote electric latch mechanism from a hatchback as well.
I think my stock hinges have about 10 ranges of motion, and the cowl mounting holes have been ratted out so much I'm really not sure where they're supposed to attach.
Daddy Cool,
sorry for hijacking your thread, I'll do a search for you on the hinge kits in a little while, there is only one most are semi satisfied with.
I think my stock hinges have about 10 ranges of motion, and the cowl mounting holes have been ratted out so much I'm really not sure where they're supposed to attach.
Daddy Cool,
sorry for hijacking your thread, I'll do a search for you on the hinge kits in a little while, there is only one most are semi satisfied with.