Im going to my friends house to work on my truck, 15 miles away, in the country, all back roads, ill probably go 55 or 60.

Ive got a coolant leak and im going to go work on my truck with my friend. So would you drive with out a hood?

 

Go for it Just make sure you mark your hood, they can be hard to line up..

 

Yea i marked the holes on the mounts but i think im still going to have to mess with it.

Should i be worried about anything coming lose?

 

no real need to mark the holes, at least there wasn't on my 91

the holes in the hinges and the bolts that bolt the hood to the hinge are tapered, so it centers itself right up


I drove for a few hours without my hood after dropoing my motor in after the rebuild. A few people looked at me funny, untill they saw what it looked like in the engine bay, lol

 

Theres a nice dirt mark on the hood so ill just go with that haha.

 

out of the 4 bolts 2 of them should be tappered, you put those in first to center the hood up and then tighten the other two, I wouldnt worry about driving with out a hood haha, when I did a bunch of engine repairs to my truck a few months ago I took it out for a pretty long test drive with out a hood and I live in a city with no problems

 

i was rattlecanning my whole truck back in the day.. i had the bed off and in the yard, both doors, both fenders and the hood off.. well i ran out of sandpaper and primer.. drove it to home depot and around like that for 2 days.. it was uber bouncy and a little faster than normal.. go figure