Hood bump stops in cowl

[Steve McMahan]

Kinda out of my experience, but I purchased a hood bumper kit from NPD (I think) a year ago, and I was gonna replace those three rubber stops that are in the cowl area. All three are taller that the ones existing. For grins, I put the one on the passenger side and closed the hood. It generated a hood surface alignment issue. Here are two pics of the height difference between the middle and one side. Biggest difference is the side to side ones:




Do we have to trim the heights of these or ? Thanks.

 

[Sheriff41]

I'd guess the originals compressed some over time. You may just want to run the new ones as is and see if they compress. If they don't you can always take them off and trim them down some.

 

[Steve McMahan]

Ok, wasn’t sure folks trimmed them. The hood fit was pretty good with the old ones, but they are as hard as a rock. Wanted to replace all the rubber hood related parts, but that height difference spooked me.

 

[Hemikiller]

The center bumper is different than the two outers. No dimensions listed, I'll have to dig more.

Center - 380624

Outer - 380478

 

[Steve McMahan]

All three pieces are dimensional the same, I checked them with my calipers.

 

[Billw69]

I’ve looked for the same parts from many of the usual vendors and I have yet to find any that are correct size. The attaching hardware is different form original also,

 

[Steve McMahan]

Yea, the screws they provided looked like they belonged holding HVAC registers on. I didn't use stock looking fasteners either, I couldn’t get the driver on the Phillips head, so I used hex headed sheet metal screws. You can’t see the heads so,