Anybody using lift struts instead of prop rod?

CarMichael Angelo

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• Oct 22, 2011

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92GreenGT said:

I know in my Redline kit it had two different install locations depending on what kind of hood you had, maybe you used the wrong measurements?

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Nope, used the measurements for the 79-93 hood. I'm convinced that the lower mount points on the driver side was probably 1/8th" or more off. probably enough to compress the shock too hard, and it wouldn't compress anymore and the result was a bind. Bottom line...my fault.

 

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Im running stainless Redlines and no probs at all. I did have one of the heads pop off the strut when i bumped my head on the hood. Im kinda tall though.

 

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Thought about them, but after replacing the hatch struts on my GC and Explorer, and the hood struts on the Explorer today, I am not putting them on anything that does not have to have them.

Prop rods are cheaper and do not need replacement.

 

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Mustang5L5 said:

Unless into the show car scene, i don't see much use for them. Hood struts would get in my way when working on the car leaning over the fenders.

Even my infiniti has a prop rod..

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so does the hood a lot but you dont see more people going to lift off hoods...