How To Install A Car Hood By Yourself' title='How To Install A Car Hood By Yourself' />Discover 6 DIY Automotive Repairs Anyone Can Do. Under the Hood. When you do them yourself. MichaelTrevor_detailing_4.jpg' alt='How To Install A Car Hood By Yourself' title='How To Install A Car Hood By Yourself' />Venting your hood. Do it yourself custom hood. Todays custom cars have outrageous designs and even more outrageous prices. Some custom. hoods can be as high as 1,5. Customizing your own hood not only means that no one else. To get. the ball rolling on the custom hood project you need a few things. The first thing that you must have is the hood that you are going to customize. Preferably. this is a hood that you dont need off of your car. The hood for the 2. I managed to pick one up from the junk yard for 1. Not too bad for a. The hood I got was in. Well talk about that later. The second thing you need is supplies. The following supplies will be needed to make a. Fiberglass Repair Kit, Bondo Body Filler, Sandpaper 6. Jigsaw, Fine tooth metal cutting blades for the jigsaw, Dremel Tool or. Lots of cutting wheels, Electric sander and a clean open work area. The third thing you need maybe the most important thing. You need patience to do bodywork. It takes a while for anything involving the body so you are warned. Take your time and. The more time you put into your hood the better it will look. Thats about it for stuff you need. You ready to beginHow to Install a Coolant Temperature Sensor How to Install. Pull the latch for the hood of the car and. Questions of a Do It Yourself nature should be. The first thing you need to think about when making a custom hood is where the hood vents. This is the most important part of desiging your hood. Make a few. sketches of what you want your hood to look like. Get opinions and think it out. Next you need to decide if the idea you have is a feasable one. Check all the dimensions 3. My hood vent ends up right. Make sure you are exactly sure where the vent. Take into. consideration the hood supports you will have to cut. After you have the marks on the hood cut a small slit in the hood with the dremel tool and. This is so you dont have to drill a big hole to fit the blade of the jig saw. Dont forget to take the hood liner off first After you have cut a small slit in. Go slowly so you are very. Go slowly and stopping often to check your work. The Picture below shows the hood after marking and cutting. Picture 1 After you have finished all the cutting sand the area down to the metal around the cut on. After you have done this mark where the under hood framing needs to. Picture 2 After you have marked the hood to cut the framing begin cutting with the cutting tool or. Be careful not to go through the top of the hood. After you are done cutting. The peice might be a little tough to pull off, it has rubber. Dont be afraid to rip the stuff. Picture 3 After most of the frame work is removed there is one more peice of frame work to be. This peice that needs to be removed is about 12 inch away from all the previous. See the black marker of the picture above This. After this. is done make sure the flap can move without any obstructions. Now the fun part. Take your current hood off and pop the new one on to ensure that it. This is the moment of truth. When you decided that it fits push the flap down as. I could get an 1 34 inch opening for the. Thats pretty big for a vent. Wait till you see. After you. envisioning what its going to looklike when its done take the hood off and mark how big. The picture below is the fitment process. Picture 4 After you are done deciding how big the vent can be cut some wood blocks the size of the. This will hold the size while you work on the. The picture below shows the wood blocks in place. Picture 5 Now is the time to open the windows in your work area. Get out that fiberglass kit you got. Follow the instructions on your fiberglass kit and mix the resin and. Apply the soaked fiberglass sheet as pictured below on the side of the vent and. Try to make the fiberglass like a wall at 9. Picture 6 Try not to get too high on the fumes and go have a cold glass of iced tea or something. The Fiberglass will probably take about an hour to dry depending on how much harderner you. After the Fiberglass has dried youre ready to break out the bondo. Fill in the. sides of the vent and the support. Several applications will be nessary to get the right. Sanding and re applying the bondo will be nessary. After the front looks. Take youre time and make it look professional. This part takes the longest. Picture 7 Picture 8 Picture 9 Notice in this picture I put some bondo on the old hood framing to prevent rattles. Picture 1. 0 Make sure there are no bubbles in the bondo and everything is smooth. Its almost ready to. Take your old hood off right before you are ready to get. Make sure it fits how you like it and. Sometimes if. you dont tell them they wont paint it. Well its now time to take it to the body shop. Get a few estimates before you get the work done and consider quality and if they will. My hood cost 2. 00 to get painted. Based Bringing Client Requirement Significant Software. No blending was nessary because the. The picture below is the night before it went to the body shop. As you notice the dent in the front of the hood was filled before painting. Picture 1. 1 Well here is the finished product. Whatcha think Not bad for some homebrew low buck mod. Any questions or comments feel free to E Mail me about it A2low. Happy hood customizing. Picture 1. 2 Picture 1. How to Install Fiberglass Fenders. Attaching fiberglass fenders is one way to add a little character and style to your car or truck. Your old stock fenders can be boring and monotonous. To make your ride a little more exciting, the addition of fiberglass fenders is a good idea. This can also make your car or truck look bigger and bulkier, a style that some people prefer. Installation of this car accessory is not that hard and you just need to spend a little time doing the project. Step 1 Remove Stock Fender. Before you can attach a fiberglass fender, you naturally have to remove the old fender first. Although there are some add on fenders that can go right on top of the stock fender. But for this example, we will remove the old fender. Open the hood of your car and locate the bolts along the hood line. Once you have located them, loosen and remove them using your socket wrenches. Once they have been removed, keep them in a safe place for reuse later on. Step 2 Remove the Bumper. Since there will be a bolt also located within the bumper, you have to detach your bumper before you can reach this bolt. But if your wrench can fit, theres no need to remove the bumper and go right ahead and remove the bolt. Otherwise, remove the bumper and subsequently remove the bolt that it was covering. Step 3 Remove Corner Lamps. Also remove the corner lamps since there will be more bolts hidden behind them. Remove the lamps by carefully twisting the bulb socket and detaching it from the lamp. A screw will be holding the lamp in place so remove that also. Once the lamp has been removed, remove the bolt it was covering. Step 4 Remove Mudguards. You also have to remove the mudguards since they will be in the way when removing the fenders later. Use your screwdriver and wrenches to remove this part. Step 5 Remove the Stock Fender. Depending on your vehicle, you may need to open both doors where you will see more bolts holding the fender in place. These are the last bolts to remove so be careful as you remove these since the fender might fall off. Finally, detach the steel fender from the body after you remove the last remaining bolts. Step 6 Aligning the Fiberglass Fender. Align the new fender to the spot where the original one sat. Make sure that the holes line up to each other. If there are extra holes on the fender, you may need to drill holes into your chassis. Mark the holes and drill into your chassis. Set up the new fiberglass fender again and align all the holes. Step 7 Attach the Fiberglass Fender. With the fender properly aligned, put the original bolts back on to keep the fender from falling off. Tighten the bolts and make sure that they are secured and fastened correctly. Inspect the fenders and assure they are lined up correctly and that there are no gaps on the frame of the car or truck. Reinstall the corner lamps, mudguards and bumper after you have installed both fiberglass fenders.