Re: My hood came flyin' off (AKA Trottmann's Curse!!!!!)

From: W . Jack Hilton III (hemi@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Aug 04 1998 - 20:24:44 EDT


If you like , I have a pic on my page at
http://www.mindspring.com/~hemi/ad1.html for a hood that fits a 93 .

It's by AAR fiberglass in FL . I think they said that the cost was $379 for
the hood and it has a design like the old R/T hood scoops from the
seventies . It can be routed to the factory airbox to make it functional .

At 08:05 PM 8/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks for the info guys but i think were all dammed for laughing at
>Trottmann when he busted his hood. Anyways I went out and bought new hinges
>(11 bucks a piece) and took a better look at the latch in the daylight. The
>part that you push up on to release the hood was stuck open i sprayed it
>with some wd40 and it moves fine now I think i'll replace it ...
>the hood's back on for now but its bent and dented pretty bad, it dosent
>shut too well anymore since its bent but if you push on it just right it
>will snap in. But I think its time for a new one..... Sooooooo how much are
>we talkin for a ram air hood, what styles are there i've seen the pro-glass
>hood and another one with a large scoope on the DML pictures page Kuk's 95
>Sport is the truck, i dont think he is on the list anymore does anyone know
>where he got his hood or his e-mail so i can ask him. Are there any other
>hood choices for the older daks?? Also how much is it gonna run me to get
>it painted?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris (Yet another victim of Trottmann's Curse) Lang
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rekker21@aol.com <Rekker21@aol.com>
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
>Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 5:15 AM
>Subject: Re: DML: My hood came flyin' off
>
>
>>In a message dated 8/3/98 11:19:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>langcj@polaris.clarkson.edu writes:
>>
>><< 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. >>
>>Buddy!! Been there! I was doing about 45 at midnight and it was so
>stinking
>>loud my ears were ringing for the rest of the night. It didnt break my
>glass
>>but it put a crease in my header!!(above the glass). I just bought new
>hinges
>>and put my in progress ram air hood on, the other hood was trashed big
>time.
>>No problem with the cowl seals, just new hinges.
>>Eric
>>
>
>
W . Jack Hilton III

HEMI@mindspring.com



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