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

From: Chris lang (langcj@polaris.clarkson.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 04 1998 - 20:32:55 EDT


Hey jack do you have any contact infor for them?

Thanks,

Chris
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From: W . Jack Hilton III <hemi@mindspring.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: DML: My hood came flyin' off (AKA Trottmann's Curse!!!!!)

>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 .
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>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 .
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>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?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Chris (Yet another victim of Trottmann's Curse) Lang
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>>-----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
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>>>In a message dated 8/3/98 11:19:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>>langcj@polaris.clarkson.edu writes:
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>>><< 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
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>W . Jack Hilton III
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>HEMI@mindspring.com
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