1941 hood hinges early

[4ford]

need some help took the hinges off the car and the spring support tightened up the rivets a little put everything back and when the spring bracket goes on the hood lifts at the cowl. any ideas other than dumb a.. why didn't you take pics. maybe some pics of under hood or some thing I am missing

HELP PLEASE!!!!!

mike

 

[JSeery]

There was a similar post resonantly with some suggestion on correcting it.

 

[fordor41]

If I remember correctly, the higher the hinges are positioned on the cowl, the lower the hood sits on the cowl. a trick, when removing the hinges that are correctly positioned , drill two tiny holes thru the hinges and into to cowl. then reassemble and align the two drilled holes and the hinges are in the exact position as before.

 

[Fibber Mcgee]

I don't know if this will help but this is the hinge on my 41. It should be the early style as I have the 3 piece fenders although it's a Canadian Ford.

 

[4ford]

thanks for the pic! I get the hood to fit well then install the spring lever and all hell brakes lose the hood pops up at the cowl you can push it down but it never did this b4 what am I doing wrong??? all are the same parts?? just painted them

 

[fordor41]

Looking at Fibber Mcgees set up, Mine has the hinges attached to the side of the cowl with the nuts on the inside under the dash. Also the arm/sprin s are attached to the hinge ***'y. Did you use the wave washers on the bolts into the hood. I had sort of the same problem after I painted my '41 except my hood spread out at the cowl. After literally years messing with it I removed the arm/spring and bingo , it fit perfectly at the cowl. Now I use a fold down prop rod as on a new car.

 

[4ford]

well I got it to fit but I had to lower the fenders and the grill like if they weren't on the car then fit the fenders to the hood that's todays project. had to bend the two levers on the hinge to make it fit on the sides so it wouldn't look like wings.