Hood Latch - Surface Rust

sleeve84028 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:22 pm

The metal loop on the hood (that secures the hood) has started rusting at a pretty aggressive rate.

I plan to sand / POR15 / Paint the offending area but I'm sure this will continue to happen.

So my question is about the cause: Besides the steps above, what should I be thinking about to keep this from reocurring later down the road?

The Hood doesn't appear loose when closed. Did it just rust from normal use?

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:05 pm

sleeve84028 wrote:

The metal loop on the hood (that secures the hood) has started rusting at a pretty aggressive rate.

I plan to sand / POR15 / Paint the offending area but I'm sure this will continue to happen.

So my question is about the cause: Besides the steps above, what should I be thinking about to keep this from reocurring later down the road?

The Hood doesn't appear loose when closed. Did it just rust from normal use?

Normal,I wouldn't bother repainting it either since the new paint will just chip off to everytime you close the hood.Sand the rust off and apply a thin coat of greese to the hoop,the grease will prevent rust from forming and will stay on longer then the paint will.

sleeve84028 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:26 pm

Thanks for the tip... makes a 1hour job a lot shorter.

jeepkj02 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:36 pm

I like to use some white lithium grease every once in a while.

tommudd · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:16 pm

I always thought putting a litle grease on the latch was part of the regular maintenance everyone does, maybe I am about the only one though :shock:

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:21 pm

tommudd wrote:

I always thought putting a litle grease on the latch was part of the regular maintenance everyone does, maybe I am about the only one though :shock:

Nope your not the only one,I even dap some grease on all the door strickers also.

sleeve84028 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:22 pm

My Sebring isn't rusting out like this and it's a year older then the KJ.

Neither have any of the Mustangs or other vehicles I've owned. Well maybe one GM product but still. It's not listed in the Onwers manual as regular / routine mantience either so I never bothered.

tommudd · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:49 pm

Sorry if I come off the wrong way at times, but my first "real paying " job was in a gas station where I pumped gas , cleaned the windshields and also did lube jobs, part of that was going around with a little grease for the door strickers, hood/truck latch ...well a whole lotta stuff that the places never do any more.
Thats in my brain that I have to do it everytime. Same as a lot of questions on here that people ask, I grew up doing them from age 13 so to me its like "thats a really stupid question" but I know not everyone was raised by a hillbilly grease monkey shade tree mechanic like my Dad was :lol:

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:20 pm

Mine still has paint on it. My Jeep is blue but for some reason where its chipped off some of the paint on the latch its red.

LIV42DY · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:50 pm

Hey tom my dad was an engineer, for Land Rover, my uncles were and my cousins are all mechanics. Talk about Grease Monkeys :lol:

daspes · **Posted:** Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:56 pm

tommudd wrote:

Sorry if I come off the wrong way at times, but my first "real paying " job was in a gas station where I pumped gas , cleaned the windshields and also did lube jobs, part of that was going around with a little grease for the door strickers, hood/truck latch ...well a whole lotta stuff that the places never do any more.
Thats in my brain that I have to do it everytime. Same as a lot of questions on here that people ask, I grew up doing them from age 13 so to me its like "thats a really stupid question" but I know not everyone was raised by a hillbilly grease monkey shade tree mechanic like my Dad was :lol:

That was a different era Tom

Of course the only choice in gas was Leaded then too.

sleeve84028 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:12 am

I wasn't snapping back Tom... I'm humble enough to realize that I was wrong in not greasing the hoop.

I suppose I didn't get the proper grease training growing up.

Anyway, I sanded and painted to help prevent the rust from reforming straight away. The hoop has been curing since last night so when I get off work, I'll add some grease and go from there.

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:04 am

sleeve84028 wrote:

I wasn't snapping back Tom... I'm humble enough to realize that I was wrong in not greasing the hoop.

I suppose I didn't get the proper grease training growing up.

Anyway, I sanded and painted to help prevent the rust from reforming straight away. The hoop has been curing since last night so when I get off work, I'll add some grease and go from there.

I know you wasn't snapping back at me :wink:

it was just after I reread it I thought I sounded sort of harsh, plus there is one on here that always PMs me and tells me I act like I know it all, so I was sort of back pedeling to make sure no unwanted PMs :twisted:

sleeve84028 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:53 am

Don't we all know it all... :oops:

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:04 pm

First thing this morning when I woke up I greased that latch! WHOOO! glad thats over.

:twisted:

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:07 pm

Jeepjeepster wrote:

First thing this morning when I woke up I greased that latch! WHOOO! glad thats over.

:twisted:

I am so glad you had something to get up for :wink:

DryBones · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:17 pm

daspes wrote:

tommudd wrote:

Sorry if I come off the wrong way at times, but my first "real paying " job was in a gas station where I pumped gas , cleaned the windshields and also did lube jobs, part of that was going around with a little grease for the door strickers, hood/truck latch ...well a whole lotta stuff that the places never do any more.
Thats in my brain that I have to do it everytime. Same as a lot of questions on here that people ask, I grew up doing them from age 13 so to me its like "thats a really stupid question" but I know not everyone was raised by a hillbilly grease monkey shade tree mechanic like my Dad was :lol:

That was a different era Tom

Of course the only choice in gas was Leaded then too.

and no such thing as self serve. oh yeah gas was under a buck too! I remember the day when we went over a buck at the station I was working. we had to put stickers on the face next to the dials. yes, dials...no digital read outs either. :lol:

Heck I remember when they first started coming out with multi-weight oils. I use to run 30w in my car before they came out with 10w-40 :lol:

GAWD, I am old!

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:48 pm

DryBones wrote:

daspes wrote:

tommudd wrote:

Sorry if I come off the wrong way at times, but my first "real paying " job was in a gas station where I pumped gas , cleaned the windshields and also did lube jobs, part of that was going around with a little grease for the door strickers, hood/truck latch ...well a whole lotta stuff that the places never do any more.
Thats in my brain that I have to do it everytime. Same as a lot of questions on here that people ask, I grew up doing them from age 13 so to me its like "thats a really stupid question" but I know not everyone was raised by a hillbilly grease monkey shade tree mechanic like my Dad was :lol:

That was a different era Tom

Of course the only choice in gas was Leaded then too.

and no such thing as self serve. oh yeah gas was under a buck too! I remember the day when we went over a buck at the station I was working. we had to put stickers on the face next to the dials. yes, dials...no digital read outs either. :lol:

Heck I remember when they first started coming out with multi-weight oils. I use to run 30w in my car before they came out with 10w-40 :lol:

GAWD, I am old!

Oh for the good old days, I think I took home 150/175 or so a week and had a lot more spending money than I did now. :shock:

I used straight 30 weight non-detergent oil in my 302 Z-28 solid lifter motored 55 Chevy, quarter mile was just out the road from the station made more money there than at work :twisted:

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