Slick 60's

A little update success on my hood, I was looking at the hood latch and noticed the teeth that collapse on the ring attached to the hood to hold it down looked worn pretty bad and someone over time had welded on the ring to build it back up. I went out and checked my parts Uni and both looked like new so I swapped them out and loose front hood corners gone! It shuts down nice and tight on the new rubber bump stops now!!

Also while taking the hood latch and ring off the parts truck I was looking at the Y-Block and noticed it is a Mercury engine or at least it has Merc valve covers, thought that was pretty neat, I plan to pull it and rebuild it if it's in good enough shape at some point and swap it out with the 223 in the short box Uni I'm rebuilding.

This is great info cause mine does what you described.

I was looking at the hood latch and noticed the teeth that collapse on the ring attached to the hood to hold it down looked worn pretty bad

But are you talking about replacing the catch/lock infront of the radiator support or the pin on the actual hood? Or both?

Leeroy wrote:This is great info cause mine does what you described.

I was looking at the hood latch and noticed the teeth that collapse on the ring attached to the hood to hold it down looked worn pretty bad

But are you talking about replacing the catch/lock infront of the radiator support or the pin on the actual hood? Or both?

the u shaped ring on the hood itself can get worn pretty badly from being loose and vibrating i have seen them with big grooves in them.

the teeth fom the latch on the upper valance will eat right thru over time

since the latch is mounted on a angle you can loosen it up and pull it forward (down) just a bit the teeth will then grip tighter on the ring.
when your done just make sure that both the latch and the safety catch are working properly and the hood is tight.

I replaced both. The catch lock was worn bad and the hole when latched was double the size of the one in the donor truck and to compensate the PO had welded a big gob of weld on the pin. So I replaced them both and adjusted the pin and slamed her shut and it's tight as a drum on the front corners.

Leeroy wrote:This is great info cause mine does what you described.

I was looking at the hood latch and noticed the teeth that collapse on the ring attached to the hood to hold it down looked worn pretty bad

But are you talking about replacing the catch/lock infront of the radiator support or the pin on the actual hood? Or both?