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In a message dated 3/25/99 5:56:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rob@CENTRELINK<img src=/i/dc.gif border=0 width=35 height=15> writes:
> I know many of you have done either the PepBoys PowerLifts or Auto Zone
> Mighty Lifts "econo" hood lifts mod, but I have to report my results with
> this particular mod with words of caution. Two weekends ago I installed
> PepBoys PowerLifts, using instructions found in the archives, with the help
> of another experienced VR6 lister, (Holland Phillips). Aside from being a
> bit ham-handed with the socket wrench, I believe that I installed them
> exactly according to the instructions.
I use the Auto Zone ones without any such incident! E mail me if you need the
CORRECT part number.
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> However, when I was done, I shut the hood and noticed that the hood was
> bowed, and the gap on both sides of the hood was pretty big. At first I
> thought I'd somehow knocked the hood out of alignment in the process, but
> upon closer examination, I saw that it was that the hood struts were making
> contact with the hood at the ball joint installed the fender. Actually, it
> looks like there's no way in heck the hood struts will ever clear the
> underside of the hood, there just isn't enough room. I then went to
> AutoZone and the sales clerk was nice enough to actually let me head out to
> the parking lot with three different size hood struts (without paying for
> them) Not even the one with the smallest body would clear the hood, and
the
> bulge in the hood was still pretty noticeable.
This is really wierd. Anyone else have this problem with theirs??
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> I posted about this before, and at least one person replied that he had the
> same problem. But he felt he could live with the bulge in the hood and the
> larger gap along the fender. I'm more concerned with how upon hitting the
> hood release lever, the hood would about launch itself into the air.
It won't LAUNCH into the air! Your car has what's known as a secondary hood
latch to catch the hood when you pull the release lever. Besides at the angle
the hood is in when released, even if you had NO secondary latch the hood
won't FLY up. I have to pull the hood up to the point where the supports 'take
over'.
Not
> something I'd want to happen at speed. I didn't get the hood latch recall,
> but it was still a concern for me - so I removed the hood struts.
There is a fix to this.
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> For those of you with the real Bonrath P-Lifts - Do you get any bowing or
> bulging? From pictures I have seen, the Bonrath P-Lifts have very slender
> bodies and attach in a different way than the PepBoys/AutoZone hood struts.
> They may be a little pricey, but hopefully they are worth it. I'd like to
> know what you folks who have them think.
>
They are overpriced and I think you need to do more research as to why you are
having this problem when I have never met anyone else who has. You must be
doing something wrong. Please e-mail me directly and I will try to help you if
you want.
Mark Herrly
Pittsburgh, PA
7/96 Black GTI VR6
You wanna run it..??
http://members.aol.com/u1arunit/marksgti.htm
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Thu Mar 25 17:03 CST 1999
