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This is most definitely my greatest hurdle as a brick owner -
installing a tach and speedo gear were nothing compared with what i
face now. Front end smashed into someone elses car, typical highway
BS. Crossmember needs to be replaced, along with headlights, turn
signals, and technically the AC most likely. My plan is to go to the
Pick Your Parts half off sale and buy all of those pieces for my 1986
245, maybe the hood, but not actually the AC (I don't know what i'll
do with that, it's the older kind that no mechanic wants to touch with
a ten foot pole, but i'll worry about that later).
Anyways, my most pressing question for the moment is getting the hood
up again. I got the hood off at the beginning, then after straitening
out the crossmember a bit to get the radiator fan hood off of the fan
(so that it could spin freely), I slammed the hood back down so that i
could do some driving. NOW IT WON'T OPEN AGAIN. The locking
mechanism clicked, but when I pull the lever to release the hood, I
don't feel that tell-tale unlatching occur, and now the hood is just
stuck. How can I get it unhooked again? Bear in mind that the whole
grill and crossmember is very very ugly looking and I have unique
access to various parts and areas that I wouldn't normally (i.e. I can
see and touch the cable in its housing just before it enters the
locking area behind the grill).
secondly: anyone know which parts for the 1986 are interchangeable
with other years' models? I presume, due to the headlight style, that
86 through 89 will suffice, at least with headlights and turn signals,
grille, hood, radiator, and crossmember. I'd like to know if the
blinkers from an earlier year will work though (they look like they
might), as well as radiator fan cover and maybe even crossmember.
thirdly: I forgot what the third one was.
anyways, thanks for all your help!!
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