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Originally Posted by 1stbenznc
I have swapped out the hood on my 87 TD with a 95 style hood. My old 87 sound deadening insullation with alum heat shield was in good shape and came off without too much damage. Just not sure what adhesive to us to reinstall in the 95 hood?
The second issue is how to keep it up there ones the glue is on? I'd prefer not to remove the hood to put it on since it has all just been repainted. I was thinking of several 2x4's with a flat piece of something at the end proped up under the hood to hold it up?
The old adhesive looked like the yellow 3M snot weather stripping adhesive. Just not sure how it holds up under heat and gravity????
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If you install it with the hood completely open at 90 degrees it stay's in place easily. Use a couple pieces of masking tape on the hood and on the pad centerlines top and bottom as registration marks, spray adhesive on the hood underside and then in the pad's topside. Let it set up until tacky, fold the pad in half lengthwise and hold it folded with a couple clothes line clips. Then place the tape on the pad onto the tap on the hood at the center line at the top of the open hood and then at the bottom, take off the clips and lay one side onto the hood and then the other. Once it touches adhesive to adhesive it's not going anywhere. Let it stay like that for an hour and you shouldn't have a problem after that.