| GarageXTi Hood Strut Install |
| Written by Ben Broughton | |
| Saturday, 15 March 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 5 {mosimage} Now grab the fender washer and lock washer and install them as shown on the PISTON end (not the black shell, the chrome part). NOTE: The piston will face towards the front of the car on both sides of the hood. {mosimage} Position the strut as shown above, with the body perpendicular to the length of the vehicle. This will make it much easier to screw the ball studs into the fender, and also make it easier to swing the strut in position for mounting it to the hood. {mosimage} Try to start the ball stud into the fender threads by hand (make sure your two washers are in place). If the ball stud won’t thread in easy by hand, coax it a little with your 11mm wrench, but as always, make sure your are not cross-threading if attempting to start the bolt into the hole with a wrench. You can go ahead and tighten the ball stud until the lock washer is flat. Torque on the stock bolt is only 5.5 ft/lb – I’d give it a grunt and leave it at that. {mosimage} Now we’ll move up to the hood. Take a look at both aluminum blocks. These blocks ARE DIRECTIONAL, so it’s very important to use the right one for the side that you are working on. Just make sure the threaded hole is towards the OUTSIDE of the car, and you’ll be fine. So, assuming you started with the passenger side, the threaded hole will be facing towards the outside of the fender. You can see the right orientation in the picture above. NOTE: Using a bit of threadlocker on the Allen head bolt is a good idea. Take one of the button-head Allen bolts and begin to thread the block into the hood by hand. It should go in pretty easy. If it doesn’t, there’s a good chance that the hood’s threads and the hinge’s hole are misaligned. {mosimage} As you get close to having the Allen bolt all the way in, start to pay attention to the alignment of the block as it relates to the inside part of the hinge. As you can see in the picture above, the block should sit parallel with the interior part of the hood hinge. Also make sure that the aluminum block’s tang is flush with the leading edge of the hood hinge. This is well-illustrated in the first picture of the block. Completely tighten the block to the hood with your 5mm Allen key. The factory bolt takes 18.1 ft/lb, which sounds about right for its replacement. |
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GarageXTi Hood Strut Install
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this is obviously on a US Forester? |
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