Hood prop rod question

**davids2toys** · October 17th, 2010, 05:41 AM

Originally Posted by beast

The stainless material is about .075" thick. It's permanent and doesn't flop around. Make the spacer so that there is a little resistance when the screw is tight. I used a #10 stainless sheet metal screw.
Gary

Great! Tell me this, this clip does move back and forth to lock and unlock the prop rod from the hood?...any marring of the paint?

**beast** · October 17th, 2010, 05:48 AM

No marring to date. Add a flat washer between hood and clip if concerned.
Gary

**weaver** · October 17th, 2010, 06:00 AM

Gary, are you going to Panama City next month?

**beast** · October 17th, 2010, 08:39 AM

No Plans at this time. I'll let you know if I'm going.
You missed a GREAT week at Cruisin-the-Coast this year. 4,854 registered cars and AWESOME weather. Several out of town Unique owners made it (Ronnie Tucker, Kent Berry, and Al Slide). Paul (Slither), Jim (Diegokid), and me are local.
Gary

**Slither** · October 18th, 2010, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by beast

No Plans at this time. I'll let you know if I'm going.
You missed a GREAT week at Cruisin-the-Coast this year. 4,854 registered cars and AWESOME weather. Several out of town Unique owners made it (Ronnie Tucker, Kent Berry, and Al Slide). Paul (Slither), Jim (Diegokid), and me are local.
Gary

I saw Charlie, the welder at Unique, down here with his Volks out in front of my place on Saturday early afternoon. Tried to flag him down, but I guess he had to go somewhere...

**davids2toys** · February 12th, 2011, 09:32 AM

Ok, I finished my version of a fix that looks pretty decent in my opinion...and it works great. I have simulated a big wind gust buy hitting the underside of the hood fast and pretty hard and there is no way this will ever blow off again.
I kind of copied the SPF set up that they use on their cars. I bent a bolt in a vise, then welded it on the end of the Unique prop rod, sized it using a air sander and finished with Scotchbrite and painted it black. I also put an o-ring on it so i would not mar the paint anymore.
The hook is on an angle so when the wind comes along, the rod drops straight down in the slot. The hole in the hood matches it perfectly so it goes in very easily.