List,
Continuing with my hood alignment saga, the car has gone back to the frame
alignment shop where slight variances were found and straightened, but not
enough to correct the one half inch height difference between the hood and
right
fender (hood is a half inch highter than the right fender). The car is back at
the body shop where I have removed the front bumper and left and right outer
fenders for more measuring.
Understanding that there might be a slight variance in the level of the
floor, we found the difference appears to be in the way the right side inner
fender
was made. I replaced the right inner fender and wheel arch, but the left is
original to the car.
After measuring from a steel bar laid across the tops of the inner fenders
from left to right, the measurement to the top hood hinge hole on the inner
fender is almost exactly a half inch higher on the new (right) inner fender
than
on the left. Measurements to the top of each inner fender to the floor are
within a quarter inch.
In looking closely at the new inner fender where the hood mounts as compared
to the original left inner fender, visually it does appear that the location
of the holes on the new inner fender are positioned higher than the original.
Just wondered if anyone on the list has ever encountered this problem? I am
going to send TRF an message to see if they have seen a similar problem. It
will probably cost me a couple of hundred dollars to have the mount
repositioned, which I will ask TRF to pay.
Thanks for your help.
John Shewmake
'74 TR6
Chattanooga, TN
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