New Guy w/ a Question (or two)
Posted: August 28, 2008, 10:58 pm
Hi all,
just a little background. bought my 65' f100 shortbed fleetside about a year and a half ago. paid $300 for it and drug it (literally) home with a tractor. little gas in the carb and a fresh battery and she fired right up.
Since then ive torn it all the way down to the frame. new brakes, shocks, bushings, bearings, cab mounts, floor pans, kick panels, removed 5 different colors of crappy paint, heat shrunk the dents out tf the bedsides where it was hit by a fork lift, and replaced a half a dozen rust holes including the bottom three inches of the core support. someone removed the trim with a crow bar in the past to a billion dents and dings were removed and the holes welded shut. all the trim was shaved and all the factory seams were filled and smoothed.
Strait six was upgraded with a holly 4bbl and a offenhauser intake. with tuned headers. moved the three speed to the floor and shaved the column, and got rid of the stump pulling 4.22s in the rearend for a set of 2.50s (they were free and it pulls just fine).
now for my question. im about ready for paint but i am having trouble setting the alignment on the hood. the old hood hinges are just worn out. with the springs installed they have enough slop in them that they pull apart and the bar between the two hinge sections comes of the pins and they no longer open or close correctly. they bind. with out the springs the hinges work fine but the back of the hood doesnt pull down against the cab and firewall like it should. Any suggestions? i tried heating the different rivets and hinge points on the hinges and tightening them up with a hammer but no success. do they sell reproduction hinges?
ill add pictures as soon as i figure out how.
thanks in advance!
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just a little background. bought my 65' f100 shortbed fleetside about a year and a half ago. paid $300 for it and drug it (literally) home with a tractor. little gas in the carb and a fresh battery and she fired right up.
Since then ive torn it all the way down to the frame. new brakes, shocks, bushings, bearings, cab mounts, floor pans, kick panels, removed 5 different colors of crappy paint, heat shrunk the dents out tf the bedsides where it was hit by a fork lift, and replaced a half a dozen rust holes including the bottom three inches of the core support. someone removed the trim with a crow bar in the past to a billion dents and dings were removed and the holes welded shut. all the trim was shaved and all the factory seams were filled and smoothed.
Strait six was upgraded with a holly 4bbl and a offenhauser intake. with tuned headers. moved the three speed to the floor and shaved the column, and got rid of the stump pulling 4.22s in the rearend for a set of 2.50s (they were free and it pulls just fine).
now for my question. im about ready for paint but i am having trouble setting the alignment on the hood. the old hood hinges are just worn out. with the springs installed they have enough slop in them that they pull apart and the bar between the two hinge sections comes of the pins and they no longer open or close correctly. they bind. with out the springs the hinges work fine but the back of the hood doesnt pull down against the cab and firewall like it should. Any suggestions? i tried heating the different rivets and hinge points on the hinges and tightening them up with a hammer but no success. do they sell reproduction hinges?
ill add pictures as soon as i figure out how.
thanks in advance!
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Good luck, I am sure others will chime in with some other options as well.................Ross
They all look good to me.