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Originally posted by jwetering
Too funny! I actually GAVE UP this job after a couple thousand tries. I have to hold the hood up with my head now.
Turns out there's a trick. I haven't tried it yet, but you tie a piece of thread through the holed in the pin, then pass the thread through the mounting bracet. Pulll on the thread to draw the pin through the bracket. Voila.
Man I hurt my hand trying to bull that thing together!
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When I decided to replace my front hood struts recently, I recalled that I had done the job about a dozen years ago with no problems. This time, when I took the old ones off, I found that I had never replaced the retaining clip on the driver side. Hell, it worked fine for 12 years so I just stuck the new one back in the same way.
