the two hydraulic things that hold up my hood are not working anymore and one is oozing foamy stuff can someone let me know what i can do to fix this problem??

 

Those cheap POS Nissan supplied on our cars blew out on you. Time to buy new ones

Unfortunately its quite common.

 

they are kinda expensive too! and they have a weird part name: "unisia jecs" left and right...

what does that mean? lol
anyway, I tried the kragen ones....they crapped out after a year...so I guess it's back to the nissan ones...

 

better have money to back it up, jus use a hood stand .

 

In English that means "hood struts"

 

so one could say I want new illumina jecs or koni jecs....or a CF unisia....

 

Thats right, or you could tell someone, Yo momma jecs down the street like a working lady...

 

i got a set of strong arms for $9.99 each (or even cheaper i forget) from my dad's work...they've been holding up pretty well but in the cold they aren't so good.

i've been considering buying one of those clamps that cost $6 that lock them. i've also been thinking about either making/getting a hood prop, or trying to install some from a volvo that have built in lockers on them.

 

or I was chillin in the unisia the other day and got car jacked...

 

I hope you guys are joking about Unisia Jecs thing...

 

Yea, we've had a solution to that for awhile.

Vice grips.

 

it sucks when the hood falls on your head when your under there. it hurts. i just use a baseball bat to hold my hood up now.

 

I recently bought one of those little clamps that you screw onto the hood strut to keep it up. Before this I was using visegrips. The clamp I have now is small and very convienent to keep my hood up. I'd say for you to get one of those instead of replacing the hood struts every years or so..

 

do they sell those clamps at any automotive store? how much were they?