Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
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Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
85-92 trans am hood........how do the vents come out? Thanks
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Re: Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
Do a search for "hood vents for sale" and see where the latches are at.
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Re: Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
The front vents have some screw nut thingies that go on plastic studs at the front (nose of the car) and then lift up and towards the nose of the car. The back vents have spring clips on the edge closest to the fenders. You have to kind of stick a screw driver or similar up into the holes and disengage the clips which will allow the vent to come up and out towards the fenders.
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Re: Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
Had some pics for you , but if you got em….good. I'll put the pics on anyway just in case someone else looking might benefit. The first thing you need to do is make sure they are not painted on, they will break if you remove the hardware properly but fail to cut any paint holding them in place from the top side. These pics are in black but they show the nut studs and the clip recesses. Once the fasteners are off, just pull the vent free of the built in clip on the side opposite the fastener.
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Re: Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
Thanks fellas! Yeah what sucks is 2 of the front holes aren't big enough to get a 16mm socket in there to get the damn speed nuts off. I gotta drill the holes out a little bigger or something
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Re: Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
How did you get them exactly? Did you end up drilling the inner holes larger?
If that was your solution, is there a way to get them out without modifying the hood? The inner holes on mine are ~18.5 mm. I've never seen or heard of a 16 mm socket, even thin walled that had less than a 19 mm diameter.
If that was your solution, is there a way to get them out without modifying the hood? The inner holes on mine are ~18.5 mm. I've never seen or heard of a 16 mm socket, even thin walled that had less than a 19 mm diameter.
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Re: Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
How did you get them exactly? Did you end up drilling the inner holes larger?
If that was your solution, is there a way to get them out without modifying the hood? The inner holes on mine are ~18.5 mm. I've never seen or heard of a 16 mm socket, even thin walled that had less than a 19 mm diameter.
If that was your solution, is there a way to get them out without modifying the hood? The inner holes on mine are ~18.5 mm. I've never seen or heard of a 16 mm socket, even thin walled that had less than a 19 mm diameter.
You can also probably get them out with some long nosed pliers, thats how dagwood's dad got them out and what Steve86TA suggested.
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Also, what brand 1/4 socket do you have that is 16mm with less than a 18.5 mm diameter? I have never seen such an animal.
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*EDIT* Just went and checked mine, they are two different sizes. The big one is 1/2" and the smaller is 7/16". I have not idea if those are the original speed nuts but that is what is on my car.
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Re: Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
I think the factory used something akin to an allen key with a hole in it that fit on the inside of the speed nut, rather then the outside. I actually have the tool from Snap On for the speed nuts for the door panels
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Re: Help please! Removing trans am hood vents
Both my Stanley and Pittsburgh sockets fit in there. I don't think I even used metric sockets but SAE that was close enough. Been a while since I took them off. I do know I took them out with the Stanley and reinstalled with the Pittsburgh because my Stanley set was being borrowed by my dad when I put the vents back in.
*EDIT* Just went and checked mine, they are two different sizes. The big one is 1/2" and the smaller is 7/16". I have not idea if those are the original speed nuts but that is what is on my car.
*EDIT* Just went and checked mine, they are two different sizes. The big one is 1/2" and the smaller is 7/16". I have not idea if those are the original speed nuts but that is what is on my car.
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