Here in So. Cal. yesterday was a beautiful day for a drive, so I figured I'd clean up the truck and pick up my daughter from school, she loves for me to pick her up at school. after making sure her friends saw her in daddys truck (she's only five) we left, we turned the corner doing about five miles per hour or so and WHAM!! the hood fly's open , "good thing my friends didn't see that" was all she could say (after she was able to talk again.)
Now here's what happened. when I picked up my truck from the body shop awhile back, someone failed to tell me that a bolt hole holding the hood hinge was egged out and the bolt was only put in and not threaded, well I finally got around to fixing it. I just drilled and tapped a little larger bolt in arfter putting the bolt back in, I guess it through the alignment of the hood off. So it didn't latch properly. Now the hood never had a safety latch on it so I never thought to look for that one little safety feature, It has one now! I went to all the wrecking yards until I found one.
The moral to the story is this; Make sure you have a safety latch on your slick's hood and enough money in your pocket to buy your kid an ice cream or what ever else she want's.

Staying low for now
Robert

 

I'll go you one better. After a successful deer hunt that cost me a grill and some damage to the filler between it and the hood, I had her repaired and a total paint job. Yes, by professionals who failed to adjust the hood or safety latches after repairing the filler. The day after I get it back- you guessed it. Fortunately, only a mile out of the driveway at low speed so most of the damage was limited to my cardio-vascular system. So gangstakr, if you didn't need a defibrillator along with the ice cream, you can skip this year's tread mill test.

Fatman

 

touche!!! But in any event it still makes you pucker in the lower region and makes it hard to explain to the wife why your daughters eyes are all of a sudden so big.

At least you got Venison out of the deal, I'll be buying ice cream for a while.
thanks for sharing the emotional pain.
Staying low for now
Robert

 

having that huge piece of metal flying up over the windshield isnt fun..lol I have a safety catch on my truck, or that would have already happened to me. Its bad enough seeing it shoot up 2 inches.

It happened in my 76 cobra. One cracked windshield, busted hood scoop, and bent up cowl vent later, i put hood pins on it. Glad i wasnt going fast when that happened


Glad it didnt damage your trucks, that would be horrible.