Hood shocks- type 44

[edkellock at juno.com]

Just FYI, I've been bitten by this twice now....

Those little circlips that you remove, they kind seem to 
be hinged so that they unclip and then just rotate out of
the way.  Dont' be fooled!  After you "rotate them out
of the way", remove them.  Pull the pin.  That is pull them
out of there all together.  I've struggled twice trying to
remove the strut with this circlip still in the hood strut end.

Ed

On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:04:07 -0500 Kneale Brownson
<knotnook at traverse.com> writes:
> It's an easy replacement.  Pull off a sort of circlip retainer on the 
> pin 
> holding the rod to the hood and remove a similar keeper from the 
> stud on 
> the fender.  Then you can slide the pin out of the hood end and take 
> the 
> shock off the stud on the fender.  Let me know what ends up being 
> your 
> cheapest source because the hood struts on my wife's '90 V8 don't 
> hold up 
> the hood any longer if there's any ice/snow on it.  I tried using 
> struts 
> from my 5K parts car, which were slightly harder to depress by hand, 
> but 
> they really don't help much.  So I guess I need some new ones.
> 
> 
> At 06:39 PM 01/02/2001 -0500, TM wrote:
> 
> >Hi listers,
> >Can anyone tell me if he/she has BTDT w/ regard
> >to replacing these shocks? Is it difficult to do?
> >Any special tools needed? A good source for the parts?
> >
> >My 200q, I found out today, needs new hood shocks. I
> >was going to either order them from Blau or from
> >TPC, unless I can find someone cheaper. I guess I'll
> >call GPR as well.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Taka
> >
> >
> 
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