Warning to all guys with blown hood struts
10-13-2006, 12:39 PM
#45
I would recommend the generic ones from Advanced or Auto Zone. Mine fail about every two years or so, but they have a lifetime replacement and I just swap them out. I think they come to around $15 each. One of you machine shop guys should come up with a design for a solid one that snaps onto the factory posts. I bet some of you fancy guys would buy them for when you show off all the shiny stuff under your hoods.
10-14-2006, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by happy4444
can sumone explain the whole vicegrip rigging
I bought my aftermarkets struts for 30$ shipped a pair.
http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/x,ca...t,partGroup,12
10-14-2006, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by black97
I poped up the hood today to check some stuff and for some reason i put my hand on the fender but i didn't mention that the hood was going down slowly......all i remember that 3 of my fingers stuck between fender and fully locked hood and here's the result after about 3 hours
Lesson learned(too late) beware guys fingers worh more than 100$
oh yeah sometimes it's good to have an auto trans.
Lesson learned(too late) beware guys fingers worh more than 100$
oh yeah sometimes it's good to have an auto trans.
You just did mention that the hood was going down slowly. ?
Your fingers were stuck for 3 hours? How did you get them out?
"fingers worh more than 100$" Huh??????????
The damage to your fingers would have been worse had you owned a stick shift?????
10-14-2006, 01:28 PM
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jesus if anybody has blown hood struts stop being a cheap *** and just replace them, anyone that has to work on the car will thank you for not being cheap, I dont know how many freaken cars I had to use vice grips on when I was in the windsheild business, and they dont hold 100% of the time.........................................=hurt shoulders and heads=mad techs at the owner!
10-14-2006, 11:12 PM
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hood struts are cheap from autozone, problem solved.
the blood clotted under your nails, will make the nail above it rot out. eventually they will fall off and a new one will grow in. make sure that you put a band-aid over the open flesh. easy to get infected there.
the blood clotted under your nails, will make the nail above it rot out. eventually they will fall off and a new one will grow in. make sure that you put a band-aid over the open flesh. easy to get infected there.
10-15-2006, 12:08 PM
#55
Originally Posted by Ceasars Chariot
im still using vice grips as well, sorry about your fingers, i thought you were meaning the hood slamped on your hands and you were stuck for 3 hours? that would have been totally lame !
I thought he meant that too! . . . that would suck, hood fully lock, you hands are trapped, nobody around. . .
If you had a CF hood, it would have shut and locked on your fingers, not enought weight for it to pick up speed fast enough.
10-15-2006, 05:08 PM
#56
Originally Posted by NAS
jesus if anybody has blown hood struts stop being a cheap *** and just replace them, anyone that has to work on the car will thank you for not being cheap, I dont know how many freaken cars I had to use vice grips on when I was in the windsheild business, and they dont hold 100% of the time.........................................=hurt shoulders and heads=mad techs at the owner!
well if vice grips dont work.. i would expect the struts to not work under certain conditions... over any work that takes a long period of time a SMART tech. woud put a pipe or something to support the hood.
10-16-2006, 10:12 AM
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get some screws in that...
I had blown struts for looong lonng time, and what I did is took the struts out drilled out a hole in them and put a screw in the hole everytime I pop the HOod.... works better than a set of struts breaking every once ina while....yeahh cheap stuff.
10-16-2006, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by ptatohed
I have never been so confused.
You just did mention that the hood was going down slowly. ?
Your fingers were stuck for 3 hours? How did you get them out?
"fingers worh more than 100$" Huh??????????
The damage to your fingers would have been worse had you owned a stick shift?????
You just did mention that the hood was going down slowly. ?
Your fingers were stuck for 3 hours? How did you get them out?
"fingers worh more than 100$" Huh??????????
The damage to your fingers would have been worse had you owned a stick shift?????
anyway... it looks like ur nails are going to fall out lol, sorry to hear about that.
10-16-2006, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by julioenr
I had blown struts for looong lonng time, and what I did is took the struts out drilled out a hole in them and put a screw in the hole everytime I pop the HOod.... works better than a set of struts breaking every once ina while....yeahh cheap stuff.
Smartest Idea Yet.
Ill try that.
Kind of reminds me when your lifting weights, and you slide a pin to the desired weight amount.
10-17-2006, 03:56 AM
#63
All that trouble to save $30 when most of struts you buy through Autozone, Pepboys, Advanced Auto, etc. all come with lifetime replacement warranty? Not sure about the logic with that.
10-18-2006, 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by X-Vert
you're the only one that seems to be confused...
anyway... it looks like ur nails are going to fall out lol, sorry to hear about that.
anyway... it looks like ur nails are going to fall out lol, sorry to hear about that.
Then explain it to me.
Why did he say he forgot to mention the hood was going down slowly when he did mention it was going down slowly?
What does this mean in English: "fingers worh more than 100$"
What does having an automatic transmission have to do with slamming fingers in hoods?
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