It snowed, and Michigan is too ****ing god damn cheap to put salt on their ****ing roads. We deal with this on a daily ****ing basis. I was taking a turn faster than I should have and I ran into a rock I didn't think it damaged anything, and I come home..park..and all of a sudden the ****ing alarm starts up, I turn it off...confused...and it starts AGAIN..I notice the hood is slightly off, as in, higher than it should be. I touched the hood and it starts up again. I look UNDER the freaking car and see a huge bump on what connects to the hood and the underbody, pics will be up soon. But anyone got a spare? How do I replace it? FIx it? It looks bent..Seems like i can bend it back but the bottom part has the imprint of a ****ing rock. So I want that fixed..I need a new one? How difficult is that to take off and replace? Prices? PM's? **** MICHIGAN ROADS.
Underbody???
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yeah....I give up, I f'd up. Didn't I say that in the beginning? If not..I'll say it again, I ****ed up.
Dude..when it's about my car and how my car was injured against the battle against the powered white ****, I get frustrated.
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lulz for the whole world
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Something about white sh*t is all i read in there and i said something about period and you talk about white sh*t so what the heck is going on in here lulz
Pics of engine bay were for Brody. I swear I say things in the beginning and constantly reiterate.
Where do I get a radiator support beam? How much would they be? And I swear I'll take it to a body shop tomorrow and stop bugging you guys with questions.
Where do I get a radiator support beam? How much would they be? And I swear I'll take it to a body shop tomorrow and stop bugging you guys with questions.
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no i wanted pictures of the supposedly "2k worth of parts you have bought for your car in 2 months"....i could care less about the damage done by your not paying attention to the road......
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For a temporary fix, drill out the bottom hole of the T-shaped hood latch support bracket. Since you bent the frame onto which that bracket mounts, just replacing the support bracket won't fix the problem. You now need a hole a little higher in the T-shaped hood latch support bracket, as you changed the geometry of your Tib by running into a house.
To remove the bracket, remove the front engine plastics and pull your headlights to get to all of the bolts. There's a wiring harness for the horn that needs to be disconnected, and you need to remove all of the bolts holding the hold latch mechanism to the bracket. Then you can just pull the bracket up and out to work on it.
If you need further help, you might post up in the forced induction forum, since anyone who's installed an NGM icebox or other heat exchanger has removed that part many times over.
To remove the bracket, remove the front engine plastics and pull your headlights to get to all of the bolts. There's a wiring harness for the horn that needs to be disconnected, and you need to remove all of the bolts holding the hold latch mechanism to the bracket. Then you can just pull the bracket up and out to work on it.
If you need further help, you might post up in the forced induction forum, since anyone who's installed an NGM icebox or other heat exchanger has removed that part many times over.
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You might just try loosening the bolt at the bottom of the hood support bracket first to see if everything drops into place. If so, you'll be able to see how much higher the hole in the bracket needs to be to match up with the "modified" frame it bolts to.
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I doubt that would be all he has to do. If you look the silver part which is a welded in part of the body that the support beam is bolted to it took a side impact and bent in forcing the part that the support beam is bolted to, down and to the side. If he just buys a new support beam he will try to bolt it in and the holes wont line up. The foundation of his entire problem lies in the are where all of these bolt together and that part is bent. At the very least he needs to heat up the silver part and try to force it up to get a half a**ed alignment before the new one will even bolt up. Could someone do this easily at home? Probably if they had some experience and a porta power and access to torches and knew how to use them but talking to someone with limited experience could cause more harm than good here thats why I recommend finding a decent priced body shop to help you out because you could just make your problem even worse.
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From the look of it you should get a new support beam. First disconnect to old one and heat the part that everything bolts to on the car body in the spots where it is bent as you heat it be careful not to pop any holes in it with your torch. You must use an oxy/acetelyne setup, a propane torch will not get it hot enough. As you heat the bent areas jack up on the bottom of the bent area with a porta power or a jack with a small contact area to concentrate the upforce in the bent areas and not the whole piece. You will not notice any thing going back into place until the metal is glowing red, be careful not to hold the torch on any one area too long as it will melt the metal. When everything is moved back enough to look close to normal let things cool a bit and try to fit the support back into place. If the new piece doesnt line up then try to heat and adjust again until the new one lines up. Be sure before you heat you get anything flammable out of the way, be careful any wiring or coolant hoses or your radiator arent melted. If you get everything back into place again to where the new support bar lines up then you should be good to go. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING WITH THE TORCH OR FIND SOMEONE WHO DOES. I can not stress that enough or you will cause more harm than good.
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agree......
Lots of good ideas, sorry the pics were pretty crappy, i'm taking it to a shop tomorrow and having them look into it..I would rather have a pro deal with this :3_nosthum
Still got no idea how to get the beam.
Thanks for taking the time for the answers...I hope to get this stuff worked out soon.
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