Hood Pins Photo Etched Help

[Vric]

Hi

I feel a litle dumb but...

I just got this. It's made from Renaissance. It's Rally Hood Pins, but sadly, I have no real Idea how to assemble them (Dumb)



Anyone have some idea ?

Thanks

[freakray]

Yep.
Reference photos would help you. the Ford Focus WRC uses that style of hood pin.

The round disk is the scuff plate that goes on the hood, the pin with the hole goes through a hole drilled in the hood.
The other piece with the 'wire' coming off is the 'handle' and retaining cable to stop the pin being lost when it pulled out to open the hood.

[bigford550]

vric use the scuff plate then drill a hole in the
hood and use a sewing pin it will look better
then the flat pin they give you
the 4 small outer holes are for screws or
rivet's. my hood pins had key locks on my old camaro 1/1 car

[Vric]

anyone have some reference picture ? I can't seam to understand how the "wire" piece is used...

[freakray]

Eric, go to rally-live.com and look in the photo archives, try the 2002 Tour de Corse Wallpaper section and you should be able to bring up a high-res picture of the Focus with those pins.
I can't post a link as I am at work and can't go on that site from here.

Or look here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.evain/i...01/focus5l.jpg

[Vric]

Well, basicly my problem is this part (in the red circle)



how it fit with the round part ?

The best picture i found is this. Is the pin horizontal ( º--- )?

[freakray]

Yes, the pin is horizontal, the ring is 'through' the pin and is sprung so it lays flat.
I have a really nice photo of the pin assembly on my home PC if you can wait a few hours?

[ales]

I've uploaded a couple of photos




Let me know if you need more, I might have some among my Focus reference pics, but they're on a CD somewhere and it will take time to find and upload them.

[freakray]

That top one Ales posted is exactly what you're looking at, the ring is a slightly different shape but it's the same pin.

Here's an overhead shot showing how it is sprung by the offset of the holes:

[ales]

This might be the photo that Ray was talking about.

[Vric]

ahhh now it's much clearer !

thanks guy ! I never seen those before this is why

[bigford550]

the last pic that ales posted is one i never seen
before