Hood Supports
 

While piecing back together my 1250, I noticed the hood when shut left a huge gap in between it and the dash. I adjusted the lower cast iron grill back towards the dash. I also moved the dash tower the opposite direction and ended up with a 1/8" to 3/16" gap. There was just enough lip on the dash to catch the hood, but not support it properly. I decided to fab up a support using a 1/8" x 1 1/2" aluminum strip. Bent it up to fit the inside contour of the dash. Then I made 2 brackets that attach to the upper most bolt hole in the dash tower that will connect to the support. Sorry, I don't have pictures at the moment, but they will soon follow. Has anyone else made a support to help ease the load on the dash?:bigthink:

They had a support from the factory that had 4 rubber pads on it, two on the top and one on each side. The lip on the fiberglass dash is not supposed to be supporting it at all.

That part Matt G. was MIA when I purchased this machine. Just trying to fab something up with material I had laying around.:biggrin2:

Correction Matt, They actually made 2 different styles and one of them had only 2 rubber pads on the top and none on the sides and the other had no rubber pads at all. I have one of each but just installed the one with 2 pads a few months ago.

I must have been thinking of the 1x8/9 one...I'm pretty sure those had four.

Thanks Guys for the information!:beerchug:

Matt, my 108 has four.

KennyP