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thank you all for the input ..it sure gives me some ideas how to tackle the problem .
before taking the whole car apart ,the hood fit wasn't that bad i think.. but then again.i didn't check that carefully since i was taking it all apart anyway .. and removing manyyyy layers of paint and primer.
and uhh.. spielman... i will take your hoodallignment as my example :)
i have confidence it wil work out ok ..in the end :)
art-corvette
before taking the whole car apart ,the hood fit wasn't that bad i think.. but then again.i didn't check that carefully since i was taking it all apart anyway .. and removing manyyyy layers of paint and primer.
and uhh.. spielman... i will take your hoodallignment as my example :)
i have confidence it wil work out ok ..in the end :)
art-corvette
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Can you please post the info here, for everyone to see? I have an '81 with similar problems. I do not recall seeing any rubber hood alignment blocks on the car, so I'm wondering if they were also removed and not reinstalled when the car was repainted a few years ago.
Thanks!
Thanks for the referral. I sent for, received and installed the bumpers and now the hood looks like it should. If The workers in the 60s and 70s GM plants had made things look like the hood looks now, Nissan would still be trying to get Americans to buy Datsun B210s.
Easy on the Gm workers, Back then it was a numbers game. "How many did we get out the door today". I know I was one.. retired now. Giving the tolerence and stack them up, no two vettes would be demensionally the same.

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I added the rubber blocks in a couple of low spots and they absolutely cured the height issue and the hood still closes fine! 

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I am sure you have all of the answers you need - but I went to Action Auto and bought about $10. worth of rubber sterring coil bushings in different sizes for the exact same problem - I just kept going up in size until the fit was perfect. Then I took the car out for 20 miles and let it sit in the sun so the hood could bend a little. Now that I have what I want I am going to epoxy them to the rail. Looks great and was a cheap solution.
Ken

Here is a picture of an '82 (not mine) with the original rubber hood supports (the black cube).
There was one on each side.

There was one on each side.


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If in doubt go to a wrecking yard. They are full of various hood adjustment rubber blocks.

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