Lift and hoods and SHIT......

[mrvette]

Went to make some rounds this morning....bank, no sweat, down to drug store I took off on main drag......hood pins missing, hood went flying, natch everything was fine for painting....primer sanded, hood was sanded last night on saw horses, put it on the car, took off without the pins....I need to hang them pins on the steering wheel somehow.....that was STOOOPID!!

anyway....I been looking at this issue for about 4 years now, never did find a solution.....

hood on the road behind me, guess where the front end lift comes from...front of the hood, not under the engine.....

so it cleared the car, and went flying, traffic behind me slowed down, one guy in a large white industrial truck stopped there, while I backed up and got the hood....

not nearly as bad as it could have been, got both rear corner tips, and the nose, outside with resin curing right now...

when that cures up, going to flip it to the nose up position and work those edges, then some more work into the nose section itself....

all and all not as bad as it COULD have been......

I need a spot to stow them pins and the washers....

somewhere they are most obviously in line of site....maybe a hole in the hood, even goofy as that sounds...PIN IN THE AIR RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY NOSE...can't MISS......

oh well back to sanding, least it didn't hit the car....lucky that a ways, anyway....

HELL of a way to learn about pressure points on a car....


:crap::suicide:

 

[vette]

Crap! U was lucky! Hey you’re good with electric things. Put a sensor on them attach to a warning light. ""Danger" You forgot the pins again.

Danny

 

[mrvette]

Crap! U was lucky! Hey you’re good with electric things. Put a sensor on them attach to a warning light. ""Danger" You forgot the pins again.

Danny

You know....good thought....me gotta thimk about that....:crap::sos: maybe just a switch on the nose, to tell when it's up slightly, simpler yet....

Need a beer, maybe a case this time....allways something, no wonder I hate paint....

 

[AJ77]

That really sucks!! But you were super lucky it didn't tag another car and cause a wreck.

 

[MYBAD79]

That really sucks!! But you were super lucky it didn't tag another car and cause a wreck.

I agree...... you were lucky :2nd:

 

[mrvette]

That really sucks!! But you were super lucky it didn't tag another car and cause a wreck.

I agree...... you were lucky :2nd:

Yeh, I had about a 250'+ break in traffic when I pulled out...and took off long enough to go airborne....I was thinking it was going to tag the car, but I drove clean under....I expected it to be run over by whatever, and so all it did is ding the corners....and nose....repairs already under way....delaminated the top from the struts/support under it...so to pour fresh resin under it, blow in with a air jet, clamp till solid.....being 80f+ outside, that only take 15 minits to cure up you know....thing is that sanded primer, but withsome tape over it, maybe not toooooo bad off....

needed something to do today anyway....:lol::crap: I"m going to get drunk, ....THEN

piss on it....

:lol:

 

[Curby]

Option

We lost the hood on our race car a lot when we first started racing.

We put small springs around the hood pins so the hood was up about an inch and it was obvious that the pins were not in the hood when you looked out the windshield.

Then we kept losing the pins in the pits, so we put small cables on the pins and attached the cables to the pop rivet that held the small plates on. That way we couldn't loose the pins when we took the hood off.

 

[69427]

Hey, Gene, same thing happened to me about 1979. I had the '69 all sanded down, and had the hood just sitting on the car. I took it for a short drive to do who knows what, but on the way back the hood flew straight up, front first. Fortunately I was close to home, so I parked the car in the garage and walked back to pick up the hood. Broke one of the rear corners. I was in my early twenties at the time, so I can chalk that up to youthful stupidity. (Nowadays, I have to come up with more imaginitive excuses.)

 

[saudivette]

You were pretty lucky Gene. You're an electrician aren't you? Come up with some sort of kill switch that won't allow the engine to crank unless the pins are fitted... :thumbs:

 

[DeeVeeEight]

You must have a guardian angel.... Anyone else and it would have been on the 6:00 news.