Hello all, I need some more advice. Yesterday I just finished a nearly 3-week brake project, replaced all hoses and the master cylinder plus a frozen caliper. My whole rig was finally fixed, running beautifully with great brakes, when on the ride home from my wife's parent's house the hood blew open at 75mph and slammed into the roof above the windshield. We're very lucky and thankful that we were able to pull over and nobody was hurt. Apparently wasn't latched all the way. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> Anyway, the hood opens and closes but the hood itself is bent into a ramp about 3 inches across all the back end, which is easy to fix but worse is the small body panel that runs over the firewall that the washers squirt throught is bent into a nice V shape, and there is a small gap between the bottom of the windshield and the panel edge. I wish I could take some photos now but I currently don't have a digital camera. I'm pretty sure I can pound the hood back into shape, but for the body panel I'm clueless aside from trying to maybe lever it back up. From what I can see this little panel is part of the main cab and doesn't come off on its own. Anyone have any suggestions?


85 Pickup, Desert tan spray job, 3" Rough Country lift, Marlin shackles+bumper, Chebby igniter, 33x10.5" BFG's