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Does your hood look like this!?
Well mine did too, so I replaced it, and added
a little extra something.
Have you ever seen a mercedes or better yet, any older american
car, with faded and crappy hood? What happens is the engine
and hood get so hot, that it cooks the paint. If you want to
prevent this to happening to your hood, replace your hood pad,
and if you have a TUBRO get the more expensive turbo hood, with
the aluminum reflector.
What you need:
2-3 People
One new Hood pad (Turbo needs a turbo hood, with the heat shield)
3 Tubes of 3M Weather adhesive (1 without mod kit)
Hood Pad Mod Kit (sold here)
Puddy Knife & Sand paper
I will say you NEED at least 2 strong people to take the hood
off. I can not see how only one could do it. without shattering
your front windshield or something.
1. Disconnect the squirters
2. Prepare a place to put your hood, taking care to remember
our precious emblem! I used two foam mattress, er mattri, er
yeah. Look at the pic.
3. Take off Hood
If you look at the hood hinge, you will see how it comes out.Take
off hood, with a person on each side, with three people, it's
even easier. One on each side, and one to monkey with taking
it off.
4. Scrape off the old hood and all the gunk on the hood:
5. If you are Not doing this MOD, you can just glue on the
Hood pad and be done. But this is what I did, or will do if
you buy a hood kit from me:
(Hey, now might also be a good time to paint any of the rust
trouble areas with some Chassis
Saver, or sand out and paint some chips
in the boarder, like I had.)
6. You will get a sound shield in the "rough" shape
of your hood pad, which you will cut smaller to custom fit yours
(W123/W124, etc)
Cut it out using your new hood pad as a guide!
7. Tear away the silver, you don't need the extra heat protection,
and it makes the glue less effective. I think. Careful, this
stuff is SHARP! It CAN cut you.
8. Now, you can take it over to your hood, and custom cut it
a bit more, so it will fit. As you lay it down, you will notice
the two hood support bars. You do not want to put this shield
on these bars. So you will have to cut your sound shield into
three parts:
Now you should see what I mean!
9. Once you have cut them to fit each part, you MAY want to
tape up the corners, I did this... I don't know why. Not that
I think of it, I think it' was pretty unnecessary.
Okay, you will notice two sides of this stuff: This pic is
the side with the peel away stuff:
This side is the side with the silver stuff you peeled off.
You will want to GLUE with the 3M Weather adhesive (Yellow
or Black) the side that you tore off the silver stuff.
This is me gluing in action! This site is so exiting!!! I found
a crappy glove in the garage, and used this, just in case. This
stuff is not as bad as super glue or Chassis
Saver, but close! Be Careful!
All Done with that section: Notice, I glued both sides. a ton.This
heat/sound shield is HEAVEY! Better safe than sorry I say.
Ah! now it's all installed and completed:
Now I carefully dragged the whole thing into the sun, and enjoyed
some lunch.
After a good long few hours in the sun, it should be dry.
BEFORE YOU GLUE ON YOU NEW PAD peal away the backing on the
shield, it will add another layer of slightly sticky stuff between
the two pads. Now put on some more 3M Weather adhesive, a lot
more lighter than with the previous shield. It's not as heavy.
Then wait another few hours and you're done! (Well. after you
put the hood back on. ) The hood will be heavier,
and I had to adjust where the springs latched onto my hood so
the weight of the hood would not close itself. But now all is
good. And it DEFINATLY was a lot quieter. I liked this mod.
Moi original.
-Someone asked if this mod has dented (with the assist of gravity)
I did this Mod Spring 2002, and whatever day today is, (October
2005 as of this writing) The hood still is in perfect shape.
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