Re: How to adjust hood on 53 Buick?

Posted by dongle On 2008/12/31 12:19:39

As you now know Dave was right on. I would suggest this is a more common issue than people may realize. Take a look at all of your hinges.

There will be an amount of slop due to age and use - and size of your hood.

Below is a qick and dirty way of fixing. When done with care, it will last many years, and be relatively invisible.

Take your hinges off and the spring off. Easier than you might think.

I have repaired this in many occassions (on early 60's Fords mind you) by simply welding the head of the rivets to ONE of the hinge pieces - the one with the elongated hole. The other piece is the hinge and the rivet is intended to rotate in that one. It's been many years but i think that the hinge rotates inside the piece that is bolted to the car??? (again in Fords)

Now when I say weld, I simply mean tack the head of the rivet to the hinge piece, so that it will no longer suffer the slop from the elongated hole.

When complete you can grind / dress the weld to 'hide' the repair.

Be carefull, when setting up the pieces before you weld, as if you set it in the wrong position, your hinge mount holes may not be large enough to adjust to compensate for this wrong position.

Clear as mud??

dongle