Okay,
So most of you guys know that I left my '88 244 back in RI just in case something happened either in RI and I needed to be there or in FL and I needed another car. When I left RI the car was in great shape. It ran very stong, had a great, peppy engine and even almost beat a new Volkswagen Golf GTI in a drag race...Yes I said a VW GTI hahaha...ANYWAYS...
Now that I'm back in RI, the car obviously doesn't run as my mom's genius husband crossed the damned jumper cables and arced the battery out. Plus the fuel pump relay is shot which I think is the result of the battery arcing, who knows, who cares? All I know is that I have to replace it. ANYWAYS....I've had the hood open on the car for the past couple of days because it isn't closing right and I knew that the left side hood hinge is starting to go. So I left it in the upright position until I have the cash to get a new hood hinge. After working on piece of crap American cars for 14 hours, my mother tells me that she tried to close the hood of my car (Since it's going to rain oh so much tomorrow.) and she "Bent the hood 'a little bit'." She thought she was "Doing me a favor." even though she DIDN'T FRICKIN ASK ME. . . ANYWAYS I went out there a couple of minutes ago and the left side hinge is bent (on the right hand side of the hinge) and the hood is bent on the left hand side as well. After yelling and throwing stacked wood around for a couple of minutes, I cooled off and came inside. A couple of questions now that I'm SOMEWHAT relaxed:
1: Is this hinge completely shot or can I try to salvage the hinge? The hinge is just bending as I try to open and close the hood.
2: Is there any way I can bend that side of the hood back into place without having to heat up the metal and yaffing up the paint?
3: Can someone run my mom over with a 245?...Kidding...lol
I'm looking to drive the car to work tomorrow to work on it so I'd greatly appreciate any imput I can get tonight, and pardon my tirade!
-Eric