Well here's the story, I changed my oil today no big deal all went fine.
Afterwords I took off on a test drive and as i pulled up to speed (55-60) on
the main road less than a mile from my house the hood latch decided to give
and my hood met my windsheild (no damage to the glass). Luckily I remained
calm and slowed down and pulled off to the side of the road without
incident. I pulled the hood down as far as it would go and turned around
and went back to my house. I looked at it for a few minutes to asses the
damage. The hood was bent in a few places but not that bad but the hinges
were really mangled. I punched out the biggest dents with my hands and left
the others. I then took off the hood and got a good look at the hinges and
proceded to take the wipers and then the cowl off to get to the hinges.
After some swearing i got it all off. After examning the latch on the hood
i noticed it did not spring back into place after pushing on it.
So now it looks like i need to go out and get a few things tomorrow at the
dodge dealership, new hinges, latch and new wipers since i broke the
little metal things that hold them on. Has anyone had this happen to them
before I not sure if i can call this a defect or not since its a 93 with
53,000 miles on it, but who knows??? Is there anything I need to know about
putting this all back together, I'm not really sure about seals in the cowl
and whatnot.
Thanks for any help or info,
Chris (Hoodless) Lang
93 Dak V8 CC LE, 4x4, 3 Inch Body lift 31X10.5 inch tires, and NO HOOD!!!
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