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<blockquote data-quote="BigJ" data-source="post: 130899" data-attributes="member: 62"><p>Hood closed</p><p>[ATTACH=full]185896[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Hood open</p><p>[ATTACH=full]185897[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And one side done</p><p>[ATTACH=full]185898[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]185899[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Rinse and repeat on the other side.</p><p></p><p>Oh, one thing... see that big gaping maw there? </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]185900[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That aint no glory hole, trust me on this. I strongly suggest you keep all your junk, erh parts, uh tools away from it. It will suck them in and you'll have to get VERY lucky as stuff that falls in there may or may not fall just right to allow you to crawl under the truck, reach your hand behind the plastic fender well and in front of the sheet metal of the fender, bend your wrist around a wall there and use your finger tippy tops blind to fumble around, barely grip whatever you dropped and by the grace of the gods hold on enough to unpretzle yourself as you drag the thingy out. Again... ask me how I know... <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/flipthebird.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":flipthebird:" title="Flipthebird :flipthebird:" data-shortname=":flipthebird:" /> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/flipthebird.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":flipthebird:" title="Flipthebird :flipthebird:" data-shortname=":flipthebird:" /></p><p></p><p>And lastly, it takes almost zero force to bugger the threads on the nut your bolts screw into. I mean, like, you could almost do it with your fingers it seems. Somehow someway I buggerd the back passenger side nut so that the bolt wouldn't thread in more than a few threads. I ended up running a tap thru there to try and clean them up, and that basically did nothing more that just recut the threads at the crossthreaded angle. Nothing to be done for it except tighten everything back down (but not too tight to strip those freshly cut new/bad threads) and let the body guy deal with it if ever the hood needs to come off for whatever reason. </p><p></p><p>So yeah, this install was no fun. I'm sure there are easier ways to go about this, and I'm sure not dropping a socket and the mount itself down that there hole will speed things up. It took me about 1hr per side, with maybe half that time spent goofing with the hood alignment (I aint tellin how long it took me to fish out those parts that fell down that hole <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/suicide.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":suicide:" title="Suicide :suicide:" data-shortname=":suicide:" />). Once again I was reminded why I HATE messing with hood alignment stuff. It just never seems to go back exactly perfectly, although I think this time we got it good enough.</p><p></p><p>Now with all that crap out of the way comes the fun part... now I gotta decide what lights I want up there, buy 'em and get em installed!</p><p></p><p>Thanks for reading <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigJ, post: 130899, member: 62"] Hood closed [ATTACH=full]185896[/ATTACH] Hood open [ATTACH=full]185897[/ATTACH] And one side done [ATTACH=full]185898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]185899[/ATTACH] Rinse and repeat on the other side. Oh, one thing... see that big gaping maw there? [ATTACH=full]185900[/ATTACH] That aint no glory hole, trust me on this. I strongly suggest you keep all your junk, erh parts, uh tools away from it. It will suck them in and you'll have to get VERY lucky as stuff that falls in there may or may not fall just right to allow you to crawl under the truck, reach your hand behind the plastic fender well and in front of the sheet metal of the fender, bend your wrist around a wall there and use your finger tippy tops blind to fumble around, barely grip whatever you dropped and by the grace of the gods hold on enough to unpretzle yourself as you drag the thingy out. Again... ask me how I know... :flipthebird: :flipthebird: And lastly, it takes almost zero force to bugger the threads on the nut your bolts screw into. I mean, like, you could almost do it with your fingers it seems. Somehow someway I buggerd the back passenger side nut so that the bolt wouldn't thread in more than a few threads. I ended up running a tap thru there to try and clean them up, and that basically did nothing more that just recut the threads at the crossthreaded angle. Nothing to be done for it except tighten everything back down (but not too tight to strip those freshly cut new/bad threads) and let the body guy deal with it if ever the hood needs to come off for whatever reason. So yeah, this install was no fun. I'm sure there are easier ways to go about this, and I'm sure not dropping a socket and the mount itself down that there hole will speed things up. It took me about 1hr per side, with maybe half that time spent goofing with the hood alignment (I aint tellin how long it took me to fish out those parts that fell down that hole :suicide:). Once again I was reminded why I HATE messing with hood alignment stuff. It just never seems to go back exactly perfectly, although I think this time we got it good enough. Now with all that crap out of the way comes the fun part... now I gotta decide what lights I want up there, buy 'em and get em installed! Thanks for reading :) [/QUOTE]
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