2815 Recent purcahse of a mark ii have a few questions

[Barry Wolk]

I see someone used the 1/8" drilled hole alignment trick.

[Joseph Stebbins]

I see someone used the 1/8" drilled hole alignment trick.

We stole it from your post! It will get us close but as the hinges had worn so much we are not sure how it will end up. Now given that the rest of the clip is sitting on horses being worked on there is going to be a bit of aligning to do anyway...

[Barry Wolk]

Wouldn't you agree that it's impossible to actually do any alignment without putting the hinges on the car first?

[Joseph Stebbins]

Wouldn't you agree that it's impossible to actually do any alignment without putting the hinges on the car first?

I don't see how you could do it any other way. I can't fathom holding the hood in the air while you try and bolt the hinges to the firewall. A couple of those bolts are a PIA with all the stuff in the way and just the dead weight of the hinges themselves.