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Help With New Bonnet Alignment

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Well I got all of my hardware on the new bonnet last evening and mounted on the car, with good lines in the back and sides, and it opens with out touching anything in the back, my problem is looking at the car the left front is too high by about a 1/4 inch and the right front is too low by about a 1/4 inch. How do you go about adjusting for this problem. Could it be the spring in the center of the bonnet holding it up too high, I have only about 3 turns on the nut and bolt to get it all the way to the top of the bold. Since the engine is not in the car I even thought about going inside of the engine compartment at trying to adjust with it closed. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Sorry no pictures too late and frustrated to take any.
 
Hi, Jim -

This is one of those "Take a deep breath and back away from the car" issues!

How are the buffers in the front of the rain channel? I'm assuming you're dealing with an MGB with the rectangular buffers. Are they the same height? Touching the bonnet?

It may be that you have to tweak the bonnet a bit, but I'm sure with a little "persuasion" you'll get this right.

Let us know what you find.

Mickey
 
As a matter of fact I did not have the buffers installed. I purchased new ones and have not installed them as I was waiting for the car to be painted before installing. This evening I will install them and try again, I think that may be the problem. Was not thinking outside of the box.
 
Also: the rubber bumpers at the front, on the top edge of the grille, left and right. Those determine front edge height alignment.
 
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