How do you hold your hood up
02-20-16, 03:25 PM
#1
How do you hold your hood up
Just thought it would be a good thread to start.
As most of us have come to realize that the hood struts will eventually fail. So in that regard what do you guys use to hold up the hood. Do you go with the timeless classic wood/metal pole laying around the house or something more creative or replaced hood struts. Show pics of your hood open and how/whats holding it.
I will start: I take a vise grip pilers and clamp the strut and it holds the hood great without a pole in my way when working under the hood
As most of us have come to realize that the hood struts will eventually fail. So in that regard what do you guys use to hold up the hood. Do you go with the timeless classic wood/metal pole laying around the house or something more creative or replaced hood struts. Show pics of your hood open and how/whats holding it.
I will start: I take a vise grip pilers and clamp the strut and it holds the hood great without a pole in my way when working under the hood
02-20-16, 03:57 PM
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Just thought it would be a good thread to start.
As most of us have come to realize that the hood struts will eventually fail. So in that regard what do you guys use to hold up the hood. Do you go with the timeless classic wood/metal pole laying around the house or something more creative or replaced hood struts. Show pics of your hood open and how/whats holding it.
I will start: I take a vise grip pilers and clamp the strut and it holds the hood great without a pole in my way when working under the hood
As most of us have come to realize that the hood struts will eventually fail. So in that regard what do you guys use to hold up the hood. Do you go with the timeless classic wood/metal pole laying around the house or something more creative or replaced hood struts. Show pics of your hood open and how/whats holding it.
I will start: I take a vise grip pilers and clamp the strut and it holds the hood great without a pole in my way when working under the hood
02-20-16, 04:26 PM
#7
Please elaborate on your statement
I did read your post and it insinuates that you've settled on using vice grips rather than buying replacements, thus the reason for his statement 
However, in answer to your post
I'm currently using a plastic broom handle unscrewed from the head 
This only as I await my new set of struts to come in. At $15 bucks a pop, I don't mind buying them ever ~5 years (which seems to be the life on them)Funny thing though. I've always known about using grips for it and always frowned upon it thinking it would mess up the strut... But it just hit me right now, its already busted, whats there to protect! LoL
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02-20-16, 04:58 PM
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Please elaborate on your statement I did read your post and it insinuates that you've settled on using vice grips rather than buying replacements, thus the reason for his statement
However, in answer to your post I'm currently using a plastic broom handle unscrewed from the head This only as I await my new set of struts to come in. At $15 bucks a pop, I don't mind buying them ever ~5 years (which seems to be the life on them)
Funny thing though. I've always known about using grips for it and always frowned upon it thinking it would mess up the strut... But it just hit me right now, its already busted, whats there to protect! LoL
I did read your post and it insinuates that you've settled on using vice grips rather than buying replacements, thus the reason for his statement However, in answer to your post
I'm currently using a plastic broom handle unscrewed from the head This only as I await my new set of struts to come in. At $15 bucks a pop, I don't mind buying them ever ~5 years (which seems to be the life on them)Funny thing though. I've always known about using grips for it and always frowned upon it thinking it would mess up the strut... But it just hit me right now, its already busted, whats there to protect! LoL
