Hood vent parts

[jonkmahl]

Hey folks, thanks for all the great help here which yall are providing. Makes my life easier.

Now I am replacing the vent gasket which was hard and as brittle as a piece of glass, not to mention rusty as the dickens underneath.

This truck must have been in a very high water situation at some point in its life because there is a terrific amount of rust in weird places. Under the dash is very rusty and I tried taking the driver side door off and the bolts came out with effort extremely rusty. The door wont come off because of the hinge to body rust. But I digress.

When I removed the two pivot bolts holding down the vent, one was a bear to get out the other had a strangely damaged nut which had about a third of it missing. I was able to get the one out successfully but the other was so rusty that I had to use a wrench to break the bolt in half.

Because of the nature of this setup for the vent to be able to be levered up the two bolts are designed to have a shoulder on them to allow pivoting while the bolts are tightened.

I cant find a bolt with a shoulder at my nuts n bolts a drome store but figure I can make some thing work. But before I button it all up and move to my next problem I thought I see if anyone knew of a place to get a replacement for this part.

 

Thanks yall.

John

[Young Ed]

The pivot bolts for W series trucks are available from DCM. Not sure what you are working on or if they fit pilot house trucks