Andrew, is it the hinge itself that is worn or broken or the spring attachments? If the hinge works but just does not have the spring, then at least temporarily, you might retrofit something like a hood rod from another vehicle or perhaps a pair of the strut assmeblies like one sees on the rear hatches of minivans to hold teh hood up safely.
Or you could just park on the street and hope someone backs into that fender causing it to require replacement! Randy -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com]on Behalf Of andrew strasfogel Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:56 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] R/R of hood hinge on a W123 There's a buggered hood hinge on my 1983 300TD and I thought the job of replacing it would be easy. A guy I know who work does estimates for a body shop says it requires removal of both the hood AND the fender. Can this be true? By inspection it appears as if all the attaching hardware bolts are somewhat accessible, at least... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090622/da167594/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
