Suicide Hood Hinge How To, with complete captioned photos

Chris Frye and I decided to make a tech how to out of our hood hinge install day and we chose to have the pictures hosted on the bscene servers so we shouldnt ever have to worry about losing photos again, atleast for this particular mod...

Enjoy!

The hinge is off buicks/oldsmobiles, mid 80's to early 90s, just find a car in the junk yard that has a reverse hood. several models were made with this hinge, and a good informational on which models have this hinge is hard to find. just meander around the junkyard till you find one.


Tools:

~Grinder

~Cutting disc(s)

~flapper disc (or some other kind of way to smooth out fresh cut edges)

~drill, electric or battery operated

~assortment of drill bits, or a stepped drill bit

~hammer

~tape measure

~sharpie or other marking pen

~punch (helps to use a punch on the fenders where it needs to be drilled for the carriage bolts)

~pliers, reg or needle nose (they help for popping the factory harness clips out so you can move the harness out of the way)

~phillips head screw driver

For the specific grade hardware we used these sizes in wrenches and sockets:

~14mm (for the carriage bolt nuts that mount to the fenders)
~13mm (body bolts)
~12mm (factory hood hinges, wiper arms, maybe a few other spots)
~10mm (fender bolts, 6 nuts for the hood, maybe a few other spots)


Hardware

These are the Hillman Part Numbers, descriptions, and bag count as the reciept reads, and the prices i paid:

(4) 137142 1/2"x5/8x1" steel spacers (packaged individually) 4@ $1.51
(2) 138023 3/8"-16x2" Stainless Steel Carriage Bolts (you'll have a total of 4) 2@ $3.71
(2) 135806 3/8"-16 grade 5 flange nuts (2 bags gives you 4 nuts) 2@ $1.21
(2) 136662 3/8"x1" 1/2" Fender washers (there were 4-5 per bag, need total of 8 of these washers) 2@ $1.27
(4) 138948 5/16"-18x1" Body Bolts (packaged individually) 4@ $1.39
(4) 139391 5/16"-18 Speednuts "U" threaded 4@ $1.04
(2) 135771 3/8" Grade 5 Flat washers (packaged 4-5 per bag) 2@ $1.09
(1) 146393 1/2" EMT Stainless Steel coupling 1@ $0.91

Total spent was about $31, before tax, not including the cutting discs for my grinder.