[T3] Stinking Hood.....

[B Fye]

Nope, no rust... It appear (so far) that this adjustment has worked!

Brian Fye

On Jul 6, 2013, at 1:03 PM, "J. Jonik" <j_jonik at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A past squareback, a 73, had hood latching problems.   At the same time the front end of the car was slowly getting lower and lower.
>    Turned out that the two arms coming from the car frame...the arms that hold the axle beam...were rusting out and bending.   I tried one attempt at having a welder friend rebuild as much as possible of the rusted metal, but that "cure" didn't last.  The car took a couple of years to become useless.  We even drove it back and forth across the country before it got too bad.
> 
>    The car is now a parts car.   Apparently there is no way to properly fix that rust problem because you'd never get the front alignment right.
> 
>   Anyway, I hope this "stinking hood" problem doesn't involve rust in those axle beam supports.
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