woohoo he is officially now a classic mod!! :P

 

Thanks.

CP

 

LOL..... I have done most of it lately behind the scenes!

 

Looks good, I've always liked the look, especially on the bigger hoods.
Why would you drill from the top and not the bottom? I would have thought the bottom would have been easier.

 

if you drill from the bottom then when it breakes through the hood it will get rough and could mess up the paint, and it also kinda would make a little bump

 

i got hood pins too 69-70 are naked without them

 

When I was a kid we had an old Plymouth and the hood latch broke and the hood ended up on the side of the road. It's no fun being 8 years old and driving around with your mom in a car with no hood for a few weeks. People look at you funny.

 

On the older hoods without the locating stamping, align your hood as perfectly as possible, measure on the core support where you want the pins and transfer to the underside of the hood. Drill a 1/8" hole in the hood from the bottom at your mark and then measure on the top to ensure the holes are where you want them and the same on both sides. Finish drilling from the top. The hood pin plate gives you a little wiggle room and I would drill the hole in the hood slightly larger than the pin hole in the plate, particularly if you are using a thicker than stock fiberglass hood. This gives the pin a little clearance given you are closing the hood at an angle to the pin.

 

The pins look great.

 

Wow. That's exactly what I did: 1st hole bottom up at the cutout (7/16 bit), then measured and drilled the other side from the top to insure symmetry. The pin bezel hole is 3/4" so after taping the bezels and screwing them down in the exact position, i used a 1/2" bit (biggest one I had) to widen the 7/16" hole, then widened it with a round file. The 2 sided bezel kept the steel from rippling. AFTER all that, THEN I drilled the holes in the crossmember to install the pins. That way I knew they matched up perfectly. If the pins aren't plumb, you can bend them a bit by hand once they're in.

Funny, the entire job took 15 minutes, but if I did any of these steps out of order, something would have messed up.

Thanks snakes. You obviously did this install before.

CP