You could mount the magnets on a simple retracting mechanism and lever (maybe lever inside the cab). Pull the lever and the magnets retract a little thus unlocking the hood. Sent from my SM-G950U using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Here's mine if I had it to do over I would use small heim joints to connect to the hood make things so much simpler Sent from my moto e5 supra using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Very, very nice setup. Nice attention to detail. Pretty close to the one I saw at the Ducktail. As far as the heim joints go, you are talking only at the top of the links at the hood, correct? I had thought of heims, but was thinking on both ends. That would have made for a real wobbly operation. Hadn't thought about one end only. It would work though if only on the top at the hood. The solid bottom hinge should hold the link stable. Thanks that's a good idea. I really like your setup, but my motometer made the design more complicated. That front link had to get a lot longer and the hood probably won't be quite as stable in operation as yours.
All very interesting. I worked and worked on the hood only setup on my A and then decided to run it without the hood. Not good in downpours, but everything I could find back then, 10 years ago, was either clunky or looked like a drunken Rube Goldberg had designed it.
"I'll bet this would be a lot easier if I knew anything about CAD. My old pencil and paper ways still work, though." Looks to me like you're well-versed in CAD already... Cardboard Aided Design... . That's how I roll, too. Good thread n ideas. Marcus...
LOL. Yeah, a lot of **** got built before computer aided design. All designed on paper by hand. I'm working on the hood today. Making the eight required end flanges for mounting the hinge mechanism at the firewall and radiator. I'm waiting on some 1/2" square tube to really get underway. If you guys are interested I will update this thread as I make progress. I drive this car everyday so I don't want to take it out of service until I have all the materials.
I have made some progress on my hinge project. All my drawing and mock ups have paid off. The hood is hinging just like I thought it would. The front lifts first allowing the front of the hood to clear the motometer. An added bonus to making the front lift first, that I didn't see beforehand, is that because the lower hinge point of the front link is 3/4" higher than the upper rear hinge point of the front link, this creates an over center condition of the front link in the closed position. This causes the hood to be held down with some tension at both ends. I'm thinking that I might get away with no hold downs. We'll see. I still need to add locating pins at the four corners to keep everything lined up when closed. Then it's time to make a new hood and side panels. Side panels are a piece of cake. The hood is a different story. The first hood I just rolled over an oxygen bottle. It was pretty close, but not as good as my **** *** would have liked. I'm not much of a metal shaper. I suspect a slip roll would be the proper tool for this job, but lacking that an oxygen bottle will have to work. I do have the small mig mix bottle also and various sized pipe to use. I also have a 6 foot brake and a bead roller.The hood will be 20 ga. steel. At least there are no compound curves. Any tips on making this hood would be greatly appreciated.
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