We had a dry weekend, so I decided to go ahead and mount the hood support. Since this is a fiberglass hood, none of the mounting hardware is here but the rod and mounting plate. All other pieces are MIA.
Sooo, I decided to get the pivot end ready to accept the rod mount, so I grabbed the rod and placed it about where I wanted it to live.
Drilled the holes for the mounting screws, then started working on the clearance “divot” for the ball end.
At this point I decided I didn’t like the ball end rubbing on the fiberglass..... I needed a backer plate with a more substantial bearing surface that could hold some grease. Grabbed a piece of scrap, marked out what I wanted, and started with the grinder.
I know - the holes aren’t on the lines....... the lines were from a previous part and had no bearing here.....
All painted and ready to go.
Since I don’t have the other bracketry to hold it up when not in use, I decided to be a tad creative ( pronounced “La-zy”). I haven’t stuck the others up yet as the epoxy holding the first one in place wasn’t set by dark, so that will wait till tomorrow. I have three rare earth magnets that I believe will hold the other end up....... if not, I’ll be making a couple brackets.......
In your best Tigger voice, repeat after me:
“TTFN”
Sent from the rainy, East coast version of Seattle.......
Ok - Got the good prop project finished. For now. I had epoxied the first magnet in the recess with a nice two part epoxy - that sucker will be there forever. Then super glued the other two in place.
By the way - ignore the two screw heads in that pic - they really aren’t there. It would appear that I drilled the recess too deep and had to attach a backer plat from behind, but it’s just an illusion. Anyway, then I got the prop rod brackets nice and greasy, put em in place on the rod, and mounted the assembly.
Yay, go me. Then I realized I was missing something
No sweat - grabbed some scrap, the angle grinder, welder, and went at it. Now keep in mind, this was a couple beers in cause I hadn’t planned on welding anything - just a couple screws. Soooo, I mixed some lazy in with the barley pops, and here’s what I came up with.
Here’s the last time I will have to prop the hood up with a stupid level
Viola!!
Sent from behind..... or under........ with, maybe, a couple nice barrel aged stouts
. Got the stubs drilled,thru, and soaking in PB Blaster, so we'll see. Easy outs will be employed tomorrow. In the mean time, got the brackets gabbed up. Since there is a nut plate in the top, I need to get the broken bolts out and use the existing holes. Decided that a couple pieces of square tube cut to shape would do it. Harvested the mounting studs from the brackets, and started cutting. I'm now ready to weld.....
