Wondering if anyone has successfully replaced the spring on the hood latch assembly? I had to access the heater core over the weekend and figured it was a good time to clean up the heater core cover and latch assembly. Turns out that the 56 years of accumulated crud was the only thing holding the spring together as a pice of the spring fell off (on the right in 1st picture). I was going to replace the whole latch assembly but the one I had in my parts collection is missing the “barrel” on the back side. I would like to take the spring from that one and move it to the original part, but it’s held on by a rivet that I’m not sure I’ll be able to fix after I drill it out. Thoughts?
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Replacing spring on hood/bonnet latch
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Wondering if anyone has successfully replaced the spring on the hood latch assembly? I had to access the heater core over the weekend and figured it was a good time to clean up the heater core cover and latch assembly. Turns out that the 56 years of accumulated crud was the only thing holding the spring together as a pice of the spring fell off (on the right in 1st picture). I was going to replace the whole latch assembly but the one I had in my parts collection is missing the “barrel” on the back side. I would like to take the spring from that one and move it to the original part, but it’s held on by a rivet that I’m not sure I’ll be able to fix after I drill it out. Thoughts?