Part 8 – Repairing the Hood

[RJacobsen]

An unusual modification that was done to my car by the previous owner was the removal of the hood hinges and addition of hood pins. A lot of work went into this modification as you will see by the pictures, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what value this had. You would have to lift the hood off and set it aside somewhere just to check the oil. Anyway here’s the reversal of that modification.

This first picture shows the holes in the hood for the hood pins


This is the underside of the hood; you will see that the hinge backing plates have been cut out and the area recessed and fiber glassed to accommodate the hood pins.


The first step was to remove what had been added and prep the area for new fiberglass.


I have filled in the hole in the top side of the hood in this photo.

[RJacobsen]

Here is the form I mocked up to lay the new fiberglass on.


I had to fabricate new backing plates for the hood hinges.


And now the tricky part; To keep fiberglass resin from bonding the backing plates to the form material and to have large enough holes leftover for hinge adjustment I cut some short pieces of copper tubing and assembled them with the backing plates to the form material to keep the fiberglass resin from leaking in where it wasn’t wanted.


Several layers of fiberglass.

[RJacobsen]

When it was all set I removed the copper tubes and sanded down the excess.


Time for the bondo.


Primer and Paint.

[RJacobsen]

And everythings back to normal.




To be continued…

[weaver]

Nice job, ever thought about moving to Alabama?

Alan

[pgermond]

Rod,

You're a talented guy.... and close too!