Well, now that Sally runs I need to address all those "cosmetic" issues.

First is the unsettling desire for the hood to come open at speed. I can adjust the striker and latch plate and all that but the hinges are holding the rear of the hood open about 1/2" Part of the issue is worn out pivot pins, one of which has been replaced by an itty bitty bolt and is "wicky-wicky" at best and will be repaired. But that won't "take up" all the slack.
I gander at these things and I do not see much vertical adjustment available. Am I mistaken? Is there a proceedure other than loosening and trying to get better? Perhaps I should just take it to a body shop, as I am a mechanic, not an artist (nods and bows to those who can work magic with hammer and dolly).

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Mike!

If the hood has a habit of opening at speed has it in the past?
Last 122 project the hinges looked perfectly matched...turned out that the hood had also come up at speed and deformed both hinges symmetrically.
See if you can compare the hinges to another set and problems should be obvious. Took me a few days to finally figure this out :) after not being able to adjust it.

-Erik

Difficult to tell as the car had at least five owners for which I have some scanty evidence (and evidence of a nasty shunt and sitting with leaves in it for an extended period of time and a terribly boogered body "repair," etc.). Nothing looks bent but the hood/bonnet may be from a different car.

Then there is the issue of darn few decent examples in the area!

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Mike!

Mike, there's at least 1/2" of vertical adjustment possible where the hinge assemblies bolt to the firewall.

Thanks, I must have been misled by the mounting of the hinge on the firewall not being vertical. It is a little annoying to be able to push the back of the hood/bonnet down nearly 1/2" after getting it latched!

As an aside, I tried to get anything for Sally at the local pick-yer-part but they were fresh out. Lots of 200-series cars, however. Sigh, seems like just last week (lat year, really) there were several 140's, 160's and a lone 121.

There were a couple of those Ford polycast wheels someone here is using but they were just too nasty looking at the contact around the rim to trust. Found a steel 16x6.5" wheel (on an Eagle so it wasn't what it REALLY came on) that is really picquing my interest if only I could discover what it is for... I suppose its possibly a space-saver spare from some size large rig but it wasn't marked as such (and that's not much of a savings in space).

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Mike!

Yo Mike!

16x6.5???? What kinda offset? I'm still looking for a suitable sample wheel to mount 205/55x 16s on my Amazon 2 dr. I'm sure I will find a good wheel/tire fit if I can get a wheel with about 1 inch offset.

Are you looking at the same combo, Mike? Pass along what you find and I'll do the same.

Mike

Sorry, wasn't really looking for them so the info that stuck in my head was typical of most "sticky" info... incomplete. Also, as the wheel was pretty obviously stuck on an AMC Eagle for fit check, I dunno where it was really from.

Phil; Oh. For some reason I thought it was Barongrey. In any event, the two I found were pretty nasty looking... of course they may be fine but how would I know until one collapsed on me?

Well, I'ts nice to know that they are "all" a little screwy. Will keep me from going nuts trying to get it "perfect."

ttfn

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Mike!

Mike, I haven't come across an Amazon yet where you didn't need to push the back of the hood down a bit to get it to align. 1/2" is a lot, though -- I'd say 1/4" movement is about typical.

I'm the guy with the polycast wheels on an Amazon, FWIW...

By the bye, anyone know of a likely culprit for my ignition switch (post below)?

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Mike!