anybody know how to safely remove the springs on the 87-88 hoods? it looks like maybe pry the one part up over the part its resting on and slide it off, but i dont want it flinging off and braking anything, or myself.
Collapse it after hood is off then wire tie it closed/shut then remove. It’s been a couple of years I think that’s what I did. Oyea when ting down be very very careful til its wired tied it could pop up and seriously injure you.
heat it with a torch when its streached and it should stay in that position.
We found another set, cut the springs off teh other set, then just removed the origional set from the hood(for my cowl hood).
nate i can show u on tuesday
anyways why remove them? I thought they were better than having a prop rod in the way, but maybe you guys think differently.
Not on a fiberglass hood...
They break a fiberglass hoods, mine was starting to crack under neath and the top was showing creases =:/ but for reg hoods their good.
Pick up some 84-85 hood hinges
i use them on my fiberglass hood you just have to undo the little square clip and then you can move it up and down freely and use the arm as a hood prop
I have a set of red un-sprung hinges that I took off of my Bird when I put on the sprung hinges I got from a junk yard. If you want them I can ship them to you. I think that just changing the entire hinge assembly would be much easier than trying to remove the spring.