Hoodliner installed with PICS
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Seam Roller at local wallpaper place $8
Windshield squiters $41 for the pair on eBay.
Did this myself without help. Only awkward thing is the width of the hood, but it's pretty light.
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I have the hood strut mod on mine... did it add much weight?
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Looks very neat. Nicely done.
So it's stuck to the hood with contact adhesive and rollered down?
As a wider question, what does the liner serve to do? Apart from give rodents nesting material? (I found an old nest in my air filter box and a big chunk of liner missing when I bought mine?)
Is it keeping heat in (seems an odd thing to do, considering the efforts we go to to keep temps low) or stopping sound escaping (also odd, as no extra noise would make it into the cabin, I doubt)
Or is there some other reason to have a hood liner? Only thing I can think of is if the vehicle is regularly turned off and on it might maintain a more constant engine temp, increasing efficiency. Maybe.
Anyone removed it to see how it affects temps? I can fully imagine removing the entire hood would keep things lower, so taking the main insulating part away should do also.
So it's stuck to the hood with contact adhesive and rollered down?
As a wider question, what does the liner serve to do? Apart from give rodents nesting material? (I found an old nest in my air filter box and a big chunk of liner missing when I bought mine?)
Is it keeping heat in (seems an odd thing to do, considering the efforts we go to to keep temps low) or stopping sound escaping (also odd, as no extra noise would make it into the cabin, I doubt)
Or is there some other reason to have a hood liner? Only thing I can think of is if the vehicle is regularly turned off and on it might maintain a more constant engine temp, increasing efficiency. Maybe.
Anyone removed it to see how it affects temps? I can fully imagine removing the entire hood would keep things lower, so taking the main insulating part away should do also.
Last edited by cappedup; 08-20-2015 at 09:21 AM.
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Now that I think about it... the hole in mine (from an exploding pulley and belt), which has been there for over a decade, leaves no part of the hood looking strange.