hood strut conversion

[RJEP]

just noticed that this has a bracket for the hood area where the bolts are and another bracket where it is on the frame...

the post that was up before, the guy drilled a hold on the frame and used a ball nut where the end of the damper just pops on...

do you have any close up pics of the bracket areas?

[civiclater]

thanks for the hook up. just finished mine. the strut comes from a honda passport 99-02. bought strut at autozone ($19.99). does not come with bracket or ball stud, but picked them up at salvage yard.

[k20 kris]

here do you get that front splitter? looks realy nice!

[oneglory]

I have some proper struts laying around if anyone wants to purchase them (I was the first one to do this diy.)

[RJEP]

I have some proper struts laying around if anyone wants to purchase them (I was the first one to do this diy.)

Which ones do you have? The one for the ball socket or the ones with a bracket for the hood and frame? interested. pm sent

[Ba82Ep3]

My SACHS strut from Pep Boys didnt come with the bracket, so mine is a custom piece from CFR plastic. My hood popped up a bit too... until i swapped the stock hood bolts with button head allen bolts to lower the bolt head profile. In my case, the bolt head was hitting the strut body when closed... forcing the hood up in the corner. Watch for the ABS lines too. My strut came really close to them.

-Dave

[lldiesel386ll]

just wanted to bump this to the top

i wanted to confirm that the sachs strut, (part no SG326011) is the correct piece needed to install on our cars; it can be found at Pep Boys the bracket that came with mine was rather thick, so you will need a longer bolt to fasten it to your hood. the ball stud needed for the pivot on the headlight support can be found through mcmaster carr, part number 8412k11. it comes with the ball socket that the ball stud would pivot on, so to remove it requires either a bit of brute force with a set of pliers to separate them, or a small set of snap ring pliers (guess which way i went ) the ball stud threads right in next to the rubber damper on the passenger side if i had a camera id take pictures, but i dont hope this helps for anyone thats curious though

[Tnhatch03]

just wanted to bump this to the top

i wanted to confirm that the sachs strut, (part no SG326011) is the correct piece needed to install on our cars; it can be found at Pep Boys the bracket that came with mine was rather thick, so you will need a longer bolt to fasten it to your hood. the ball stud needed for the pivot on the headlight support can be found through mcmaster carr, part number 8412k11. it comes with the ball socket that the ball stud would pivot on, so to remove it requires either a bit of brute force with a set of pliers to separate them, or a small set of snap ring pliers (guess which way i went ) the ball stud threads right in next to the rubber damper on the passenger side if i had a camera id take pictures, but i dont hope this helps for anyone thats curious though

thread is useless without pics!! ;-)

[lldiesel386ll]

i can take phone pics if you like

in all honesty i have a friend or two coming by tomorrow for other car related work that can probably assist with providing pictures. ill see what can be done

[Tnhatch03]

i can take phone pics if you like

in all honesty i have a friend or two coming by tomorrow for other car related work that can probably assist with providing pictures. ill see what can be done

sounds good man!

i was reading the thread and was thinking about closing it... since it was from 2008, but with your information and some updated pictures, you may be on to something. :-)

[lldiesel386ll]

that works for me

i did this mod out of necessity--that hood prop gets in the way of other more important things i remembered sometime ago someone did this mod before, but there was no definitive answer to what parts were necessary. i figured i do my best to try and fill in the gaps

[ep-unit]

this will come in handy

[lldiesel386ll]

as a small update, i do have one picture of the installed strut. what is visible is what is included when you purchase that sachs strut from Pep Boys

[Kerby]

pic no worky!

[lldiesel386ll]

tried a new link--did that fix it?

2004ep3hatch has some additional pictures of the ball stud, but those can be identified off the online mcmaster carr catalog