I just bought a set from Auto Zone for $15.99 for a steel hood.

So get home and try and replace them, the directions looked like a monkey wrote them up so their useless pretty much, so i look at what im working with.

It looks like you could either pop out that stub pointing towards the engine, or you could unscrew other side, but it dosent look like i should have to do that, plus i couldnt fit a screw driver or anything between it and the hood, so im guessing i just pop those little studs out like i mentiond 1st plus the directions says something about popping them off, so i pry and pry and pry, and finailly the metal from that stud starts shipping away so i stop, examin some more, and see theirs no other way to remove them, theirs a bracket thing that looks like its supposed to slide u and down but dosent. Any east way of doint this, or are these hood shocks supposed to be permanent?

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1991 Z28 Camaro L98
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That little clip that looks like it should slide out of the way doesn't slide at all. You just have to pry both sides of that clip outwards enough to clear the lip on that stud. Hell, bend the crap out those clips! You should have new ones on your new hood shocks.

 

Thanks man, but your like 5hrs two late, ive already got pi$$ed and ripped the clips off, then couldnt figure out how to get the rest of them off, then i gave up again, then a friend walked over and asked what i was workin on, i said let mew show ya, told himt o hold up the hood, and the sonsabitches slid right out, and i put the new ones in in like 5 seconds.