Remedy for a cracked Hood!

[Powderfreak56]

Here's a remedy for a cracked hood. 14 gauge stranded colored wire will work great! This hood was stitched together two years ago and the crack has not gotten any worse. The hood near the top was to difficult to pull together, but it's still hanging in there. Just cut the wire long enough to twist together on the inside of the hood. It's a great fix that is quick, inexspensive, and easy!

 

[hatchers]

1- cut up a thin peice of aluminum from home depot
2- tape behind crack on the inside of hood
3- drill some rivet holes on boht sides of this crack
4- add some rivets to these holes
5- ride

my current hood has 5 large cracks and would fall apart if not reinformed with this simple/cheap/functional fix

 

[maddog21]

Thats why I use the duct tape, it work awesome! all I have do is to tape it to cover the crack then color it with marker to match the color... voila! finish in one minute.

 

[Tim Healy]

screen door material and melted six pack rings press it in the crack through the screen with a putty knife until it is all bonded

 

[volcano buster]

screen door material and melted six pack rings press it in the crack through the screen with a putty knife until it is all bonded

Thus, most of your repair jobs are calibrated in increments of 6 beers?

 

[Spiced Wafer]

at the end of the a crack, drill a little hole, that way the crack can't continue to crack.....its like a pilot hole

instead of the electircal wire, you can do the same thing with zip ties...drill a hole on each side of the crack and stitch it together with a zip tie...

 

[Teth-Air]

at the end of the a crack, drill a little hole, that way the crack can't continue to crack.....its like a pilot hole

instead of the electircal wire, you can do the same thing with zip ties...drill a hole on each side of the crack and stitch it together with a zip tie...

After the zip ties, you need to cover the repair with goop glue. This will hold everything from movig around. the zip ties also blend in to the repair wih the goop. If your hood is black use the black goop if not black, you can use clear. This stuff is excellent for wire insulation, windshield, boot, and seat repairs aswell.

 

[Tim Healy]

Thus, most of your repair jobs are calibrated in increments of 6 beers?

bigger the job more beer then you remember how much fun that wreck was

 

[snowmoherb]

You could just repair it the right way, with fiberglass...
I know that will take some of the fun out of it, but it's pretty easy to do

 

[volcano buster]

I'm thinking he would still go through the 6 beers and then wonder what to do with the "extra" parts.

 

[Tim Healy]

fixing things sober is like fishing.....sober

 

[snowmoherb]

LOL, I hear ya, just don't get too hammered and fiberglass your hand (or something else) to the hood

 

[Tim Healy]

or your hand to something eles

 

[ItDoAble]

Here's a remedy for a cracked hood. 14 gauge stranded colored wire will work great! This hood was stitched together two years ago and the crack has not gotten any worse. The hood near the top was to difficult to pull together, but it's still hanging in there. Just cut the wire long enough to twist together on the inside of the hood. It's a great fix that is quick, inexspensive, and easy!

Frankensled .. nice stiches.

 

[LRD]

1- cut up a thin peice of aluminum from home depot
2- tape behind crack on the inside of hood
3- drill some rivet holes on boht sides of this crack
4- add some rivets to these holes
5- ride

my current hood has 5 large cracks and would fall apart if not reinformed with this simple/cheap/functional fix

Thats a great tip. I have to wrack my brain and try and remember where I saw a add for I think it was callled "Militarty Stregth Duct Tape" !! Should be able to do it on the mtn with something like that!!! I never was aware of this stuff I guess because I never worked on choppers, strictly F4c Phantom's!!!

Good Luck

Ask and you shall receive or, er Ask Gogle 100 MPH Military Grade Duct Tape http://www.paradestore.com/detail.aspx?ID=1121 I never was aware of this stuff in Nam I guess because I never worked on choppers, strictly F4C Phantom's!!! Wow if they used it to tape helicopter blades back together, its gotta be able to hold a Cat,Doo,Yami,Pol together!!!