Hood Springs

[GAT]

Thank you also ,I'll have to fix it in the winter . nice video .

[David Smart]

John,

You are absolutely right.

Here are the hinges of 1966 that we overhauled in winter:

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The red arrows indicate the critical points. I welded these points and drilled them again. We replaced one of the rivets with a corresponding screw.



The disassembling of the spring works with a large screwdriver, the mounting works with a tension belt and a large vice.

Here the result of the rebuilt hinge:



The Reassembly of the hood requires two people.

Does this right arrow weld and redrill repair solve the problem of the hood being too high in the rear?

Thanks, Dave Smart

[Egenolf]

Dave,

yes it does, al least if you repair both holes and if you also replace the spring.

[GAT]

Hello. where did you get the springs ,is there a part no. Thank you.

[Egenolf]

I do not know a part number.

I had the springs built here in Germany.

[Barry Wolk]

I just did two hoods. One had elongated holes for the rivets and the other had elongated holes for the spring. The spring holes cause the hood to drop and the pivot pin wear causes the hood to ride high. Some times, if the pivot pin wear isn't too bad the hinges can be adjusted, but that work is not for the faint of heart as nearly al the panels under the dash need to be removed to access the 4 nuts on the interior that bolt the hinges to the body. If your hood rides high simply loosen all 4 bolts on each hinge, lower the hood, position it and tighten the inside nuts and then lift the hood to tighten the others.

The hood on my car was missing nearly 1/4" of metal. Restoring those surfaces caused the spring to stretch more, making the hood stand proud.

[Shelly Harris]

Wonderful info here.... don't want to piss off the thin skinned so here's advanced notice this thread is going to get moved over to the Technical section.

[patsbodyshop]

hi I seen you post on hood springs and wanted to reach out to see if you want to sell a pair or if you could get me the measurements of the springs, length, diameter number of coils size of wire kind of thing? I'm in the middle of a restoration and the car had no springs on it when we got it.

Thank you
Andy Grundman
Pat's body shop
Wausau WI 54401
715-848-9153 is my shop phone
715-432-8123 is my cell
andy@patsbodyshop.com

[Milsteads Garage]

My car has 56-57 Lincoln premiere hood hinges on it. Unfortunately I have the weaker springs/hinges from the premiere so the hood will not stay up on its own. From what I’ve observed, to make a premiere hinge work, you must use a continental spring plus gusset the front hinge to keep it from bending.