1 MAN HOOD INSTALL ?

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WAYNE0

WAYNE0

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I do body & paint. I can remove & install pertty much any body panel by my self. Including most trunk lids. The only panel i cant do my self is the hood. Its getting harder to find help. Anyone out there have a solution? I bought an attachment for my floor jack to install doors & it works awesome.
 
I built a '46 Chevy for my son, the hood weighs a ton. I did all the work myself and had to find a safe way to lift and fit the hood. I came up with a simple cheap solution. I went to Lowles and bought 4 small inexpensive pulleys. Bolted them to the rafters and ran some paracord through them. One for each corner of that heavy hood. It worked really great!!! FYI - You can see my Barracuda on the side so nobody gets too upset about me using the "C" word.

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chrgdrt said:
Something like this

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Yep, except I have wooden rafters so it made it much easier to attach the pulleys. It makes something difficult into something easy!! I don't think that the strongest man in the world could have set that '46 hood in place and held it up at the correct angle for as long as it took to locate and attach the hood bolts!!!!! I only used one pulley at the top, no pulleys at the bottom, I did it all by myself.
 
I can do it by myself no problem but wouldnt risk it on something with nice paint. I put multiple layers of moving blankets on the cowl and use that as a pivot point.
 
I like the 19.99 harbor freight bike lift idea. Only thing I would do is attach the left hooks to the right hooks with a cord so they can't slide off.
 
I do it all the time with a blanket, piece of wood, and tape on an A-Body. Rest the hood on the hood hinges at the back on top of them, the front rests on a piece of wood on top of the latch. Start the two inner most bolts on the hinges and hood, then tilt the hood and start the third bolt, then go to the other side. Tighten all the bolts and slowly close the hood, adjust from there...
 
MoparMike1974 said:
I can do it by myself no problem but wouldnt risk it on something with nice paint. I put multiple layers of moving blankets on the cowl and use that as a pivot point.
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I've done it several times on an E body Challenger with very nice paint.
Use carpet scraps to protect cowl, fenders,windshield.
Now you will scratch up the hinge area, but not too badly.
 
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