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Not sure where this should go, so I'll dump it here. Mods, please feel free to relocate it if you wish. Delete it if it's too off-topic, but I figured since it's dealing with hood pins, someone else may benefit, if there's a solution for my problem. I need to know if I have any alternative solutions for a hood pin issue I have. It's not for any of our GM F-bodies, but it's an issue with an AeroCatch.

I'm restomoding our 86 Rustang SVO. I'm 'adding lightness', so I've installed a bolt-on fiberglass hood. I decided to install Aerocatches to keep the front secured, even though it's supposed to be able to use the factory hood latch. I'd like to install the pins where the factory hood bumpers go. There's a 'divot' in the underside of the hood that would make drilling a breeze and I wouldn't have to drill any holes in the core support. The trouble is, the pins are like 3/8" USS and the hood bumper studs are 8mmX1.25. I asked a friend to have a go a cutting the pins down and re-threading them to fit the captured nuts in the core support. He experimented with a regular bolt, but it failed, so he didn't want to hack up my existing pins.

To get the captured nuts out of the core support, I'd probably have to re-disassemble the front end, which includes drilling out some rivets. I'd like not to do that. Does anyone have any possible solutions? Anyone know someone who can fab up some new pins? Are there different-sized pins available? Other ideas? Thanks.

[CrashTestDummy]

The saga continues. I ended up drilling out the captured nuts so I could _just_ fit the pin studs through the hole. I started with a drill bit that was just a little bigger than the existing hole, and slowly worked my way up to the pin diameter. It took a while. I'd like to locate some flanged 10mmX1.5 nuts to hold the pins to the core support. I'm guessing a day trip to the local Pick-N-Pull in the foreign car section may net me what I'm looking for.

I've cut the hood so the latch bodies fit, and am in the process of trying to locate something to use to hold the latch bodies to the hood. The kit comes with some short, about 10mmX4mm counter-sunk allen head machine screws. The hood is constructed of two layers, so none of these short screws will work. I've located some 20mm screws, but that's about as long as it gets that I have been able to find, anyway. Since the hood is so thick, I'm thinking of securing the latch bodies with sheet screws. My thinking is the only way the latch bodies will come out is through the top of the hood, and when latched to the pins, will be pulled to the hood with the spring force of the hood against the hoodlatch. I'd like to locate something with an allen-, or torx-bit counter-sunk head, but it's looking like I'm limited to flat-blade or phillips screw head.

Does anyone have any ideas where I might be able to locate small sheet metal screws with an allen head counter-sunk head? Thanks.

http://www.aerocatch.com/category_sublist....mp;procatid=160

[Blainefab]

I'd like to locate some flanged 10mmX1.5 nuts to hold the pins to the core support.

Does anyone have any ideas where I might be able to locate small sheet metal screws with an allen head counter-sunk head? Thanks.

Mcmaster:

M10 1.5 15 7.9 21 2.8 10 94920A600 5.71

http://www.mcmaster.com/#sheet-metal-screws/=dqwxyd