Hood Fix?

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Mojoe9955

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Aside from the obvious sheet metal repair, does anyone have any insight on how to manage the threaded connection within the hood structure. On one side there are mangled remnants of the "threaded" piece that should be there, while the other side is completely missing, probably sliding around inside the mostly inaccessible hood structure. Any ideas on if possible, how to recover it and if not, what you did to remedy the situation? Thanks

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Fold over nut looks like it'd work . If you have to tack a tail onto it.
 
I was thinking something like that, but while the front slot is pretty decent the backs are completely destroyed. The previous owner wedged an 1.5" carriage bolt in there, so you really had to spread the hood hinges to get the hood on and secure it with a nut. In doing so mangled the hinges... another story
 
Do you have welding ability?

I would find a convenient location at the back of the hood rib and cut a slot in it big enough to get a plate in there with some welded on nuts.

While at it do what ever repair to the outer metal needed to make it whole

After inserting the plate with nuts, weld up the slots created.

Basically rebuild want the factory did but maybe a bit more substantially
 
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Whats the condition of the rest of the hood, as in is the rest sound enough to save the hood or does it need more work else were?
 
Do you have welding ability?

I would find a convenient location at the back of the hood rib and cut a slot in it big enough to get a plate in there with some welded on nuts.

While at it do what ever repair to the outer metal needed to make it whole

After inserting the plate with nuts, weld up the slots created.

Basically rebuild want the factory did but maybe a bit more substantially
Do you have welding ability?

I would find a convenient location at the back of the hood rib and cut a slot in it big enough to get a plate in there with some welded on nuts.

While at it do what ever repair to the outer metal needed to make it whole

After inserting the plate with nuts, weld up the slots created.

Basically rebuild want the factory did but maybe a bit more substantially
Do you have welding ability?

I would find a convenient location at the back of the hood rib and cut a slot in it big enough to get a plate in there with some welded on nuts.

While at it do what ever repair to the outer metal needed to make it whole

After inserting the plate with nuts, weld up the slots created.

Basically rebuild want the factory did but maybe a bit more substantially
 
If I'm not mistaken, what is needed inside must be able to move fore and aft within the hood. What is wedged inside now looks like a 1/8 plate about a 1/2 wide and about 7/8 long with "threads" or a nut welded to the back side on both ends to keep it captured in a "reversed, upside down chanel" to allow it to move back and forth while keeping it from falling out while moving the hood around.
 
Excluding the damage done to the mounting holes, this is an excellent hood, no dents and other than surface rust and and a shitty coat of primer on the top, it has the original paint, insulation and seals. An excellent hood.

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This is just a quick sketch of what I suspect is going on inside.

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Slot in end to put new captive nut strip inside
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This is just a quick sketch of what I suspect is going on inside.

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Slot in end to put new captive nut strip inside
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Thanks Dan, that looks good. This is what I actually took out a factory hole on the outside rib near the front of the hood. It was curled up in a ball and I had to hold while cutting it. I got the big part out pretty easily then got the other piece out with a magnet. I tried to straighten it, but it wants to break. Tomorrow I'll work on getting the "capture" out which is spot welded to the rib better the mounting holes/slots

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Substantial captive nut but they blew it on the material between the two.

The trunk captive nut is actually removable and fits inside the hinge tube.

It is part of a u shaped channel.

After looking at your piece and taking a tiny borascope to the only hole in the hood near the hinge on my 67 dart. This is what I think it looks like inside now.

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You might be able to remove only the spot welds on the top side and fanagle a replacement welded nut piece into the keeper then re spot weld the keeper.

I know at some point they changed the adjustment from slots on the hood to slots on the hinge or visa versa.
 
You have to wonder how they came up with this stuff. Working on Mopar always requires an inordinate amount of wangling. You gave some good ideas Dana. Thank you
 
You have to wonder how they came up with this stuff. Working on Mopar always requires an inordinate amount of wangling. You gave some good ideas Dana. Thank you
Fixed. I cut a slot at the bottom of the hood to retrieve the mangled parts as they were wedged in there. I drilled the spot welds and got the rest of the required pieces. I was able to salvage both retainers and both rails which I was able to piece together and make one rail I fabricated a new rail and refurbished the mangled retainer. I then dropped a string with a nut down to the bottom and pulled the assembled parts up bolted them in postion and spot welded them in position. After some grinding a sanding I used a little bondo to smooth it all out and I was lucky enough to have a can of red paint to finish the job. Although it was a challenge it was easier than I expected.

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What part of "Q
Your SolidWorks assembly lacks assembly. :)
what part of "quick sketch" did you miss? :poke::rofl:

It is interesting how different the inner working of a 67 hood is to a later hood.
 
Now I have work on the hinges which I had to remove the fenders to access...more rust exposed as well :BangHead:
 
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