New Hood Won't Fit! Help?!

[Joe 1320]

After about 6 hours of screwing with it we got it fitting perfectly!

I had to remove the entire front clip from the car, nose, both fenders....

We slotted the bolt holes in the corner brackets that connect the headlight bar to the fenders and nose. We then moved that bracket up 1/4 inch and bolted it down. We straitened out the collision damage that had gone unrepaired from the previous owner and put the fenders on, closed the hood and VIOLA!! A little fine tuning and it was fitting like it should. I am sooo relieved!!

Very cool. Good job! Most people don't have the guts to take things apart like that. as a kid, I never had that problem. It seems like I was always taking things apart to see how they worked. The only problem is that it wasn't until I was older that I got into assembling things. My mom wasn't too happy about the disassembly part. Especially when I took apart her alarm clock and made her late for work. I must have been 6 at the time. LOL!

[TraceZ]

Very cool. Good job! Most people don't have the guts to take things apart like that. as a kid, I never had that problem. It seems like I was always taking things apart to see how they worked. The only problem is that it wasn't until I was older that I got into assembling things. My mom wasn't too happy about the disassembly part. Especially when I took apart her alarm clock and made her late for work. I must have been 6 at the time. LOL!

Man, that is funny. You and I are wired the same way. I took *everything* I could get my hands on apart as a kid also. My favorite was my Grandmother's vacuum cleaner. I tried puting it back together and must had gotten the terminals on the motor backwards? It blew out dirt, instead of sucking it in. Boy was she mad. I did a mechanical alarm clock too, and could never get it back together. It's like all the parts just fell out of it... Little gears galore. old radios, TVs, car stereos.. I liked to smash things with a hammer after I was done taking them apart too.

I think I'll refrain from smashing the Z with a hammer. I kinda grew out of that phase, I guess.

[Joe 1320]

Man, that is funny. You and I are wired the same way. .. I liked to smash things with a hammer after I was done taking them apart too.

I think I'll refrain from smashing the Z with a hammer. I kinda grew out of that phase, I guess.

That's too freaking similar. just out of curiosity...... did you ever go through the blowing the stuff up phase? BTW, I tried hammering the ball point pen into a board like on the old TV commercial. It went right in, but still wouldn't write afterwards.

[TraceZ]

That's too freaking similar. just out of curiosity...... did you ever go through the blowing the stuff up phase?

That is not a phase, that is a way of life. I grew up with a tin of 4F powder and a roll of green cannon fuse in my closet. I always use paper for the casings because I don't want to hurt anyone with shrapnal, but the charges I make are plenty capable of blowing stuff up. My family has gun collections and one relative even collects full-auto. As a child we went out to the rock quarry and shot up targets and I had a sand mound I would build bases and prop up plastic soldiers and shoot bb's at them. The only guns I have now is my old bolt action 22 and original Daisy bb gun. I've been so busy having a family I have not gotten back into that hobby yet.

blow it up, shoot at it, burn it... LOL... fun stuff. As long as nobody gets hurt!

[Joe 1320]

Hahaha.... my favorite was quick burn flash powder. Rockets too.

[DJ Taso]

You are now a part of the Ram Air Bros, Tracey. Welcome!

[LOUD2000T/A]

just out of curiosity, how old are you guys....blowin stuff up and hittin it with hammers. btw i'm the same way. my friends and me found a tv in the woods when we were younger....it was like christmas.

[Joe 1320]

just out of curiosity, how old are you guys....blowin stuff up and hittin it with hammers. btw i'm the same way. my friends and me found a tv in the woods when we were younger....it was like christmas.

I've been celebrating my 29th birthday for at least 12 years now.

[TraceZ]

Hahaha.... my favorite was quick burn flash powder. Rockets too.

I'm 31...

Rocket engines rock. We used to strap those things to anything. One rocket we made had a total of 7 D12 engines on it. We used cannon fuse to ignite them and some didnt go, so the rocket went up at an angle and flipped over crashing into the ground. Live rocket engines were flying everywhere! One part of the main tube ended up 100 feet away on fire.

Good times!!!

[Joe 1320]

I'm 31...

Rocket engines rock. We used to strap those things to anything. One rocket we made had a total of 7 D12 engines on it. We used cannon fuse to ignite them and some didnt go, so the rocket went up at an angle and flipped over crashing into the ground. Live rocket engines were flying everywhere! One part of the main tube ended up 100 feet away on fire.

Good times!!!

Heck, I lit my neighbor's yard on fire doing that very same thing. I guess we truely are brothers in spirit. I was a little more high tech in the firing dept. I custom built some electronics for fire control and even made a hand held launcher similar to an RPG. Pretty accurate too considering it wasn't guided. The stuff we did when we were kids....... amazing we're alive to talk about it.

[Z Ya Later]

Geez, we went from hoods to pyro-fest '05 lol j/k

[TraceZ]

amazing we're alive to talk about it.

And not in jail..... With everyone as high-strung as they are these days we'd of likely gotten in big trouble today for what we called simple fun back in those days. Times are changing. It's time to move out to the country.

Did you ever see my potato cannon -vs- car door video?? LOL

[Joe 1320]

Did you ever see my potato cannon -vs- car door video?? LOL

Oh yeah... that was a classic. I hadn't laughed that hard in years. It really brought back memories. ya know, a D12 does fit in a spud and can be made into a bottle rocket.

[Kevin - Blown 95 TA]

Man, that is funny. You and I are wired the same way. I took *everything* I could get my hands on apart as a kid also. My favorite was my Grandmother's vacuum cleaner. I tried puting it back together and must had gotten the terminals on the motor backwards? It blew out dirt, instead of sucking it in. Boy was she mad. I did a mechanical alarm clock too, and could never get it back together. It's like all the parts just fell out of it... Little gears galore. old radios, TVs, car stereos.. I liked to smash things with a hammer after I was done taking them apart too.

I think I'll refrain from smashing the Z with a hammer. I kinda grew out of that phase, I guess.

Me too, exactly the same as you guys. I took apart a LOT of stuff including every toy I had and some of my sisters stuff like her Chatty Cathy to see what made it talk. We rescued countless TVs from the curb, and lot's of other electrical trash too. I also found that you could power a lot of stuff from a train transformer. It wasn't until my mid 20's that I could build and fix stuff. Before that it was just destructive curiousity. Had trouble getting any gunpowder or rocket engines, though so I would salvage half blown fireworks to get the stuff inside. Later on, I made my own gunpowder and fuzes, but they hardley ever exploded correctly. Still, that's how you learn about things. It's also why when they hire some girl engineer at work, they don't know anything but what they memorized from school. They're just as smart, but they don't know the same as a guy who worked on stuff for 15 years before ever studying it formally. It's interesting adventure just to watch someomne like that try to drill a hole. It never occurred to them that a drill could run backward.

BTW, I still love fireworks, too bad they're semi-illegal.

[TraceZ]

In a pinch, you can use the heads from matches as gunpowder. Before my parents allowed me to have gunpowder I used to ride my bike to the corner grocery store and buy boxes of matches. Cut the heads off, roll them up in a nice tight paper tube and presto, you have a big firecracker.