After reading all the folks here that WANT the rod, it surprises me.
I absolutely HATE having a prop rod to support the hood on ANY of my vehicles. I guess to each their own. I find it surprising with some of the stories of the hood falling on your head whether the truck was pointing downhill or in the wind. To me that is lack of PM, but I grew up in cold winter weather, and if the struts on anything even gave a hint of not holding up when it was cold, we changed them. But having a high wind catch a hood with only a prop rod and having THAT hood smack me in the head.....that's a no go for prop rods to me. My Studebaker has a prop rod and it's always in the way to work on it, or is's falling out, or the wind lifts the hood and drops it all. No Thanks. I'll rework them to a McMaster Carr equivalent if I must. I did that with the rear hatch and it's now higher, and still holds it up at -25°F.
Sounds like there are some resources now that the part numbers have been posted.
Good Luck All!
I absolutely HATE having a prop rod to support the hood on ANY of my vehicles. I guess to each their own. I find it surprising with some of the stories of the hood falling on your head whether the truck was pointing downhill or in the wind. To me that is lack of PM, but I grew up in cold winter weather, and if the struts on anything even gave a hint of not holding up when it was cold, we changed them. But having a high wind catch a hood with only a prop rod and having THAT hood smack me in the head.....that's a no go for prop rods to me. My Studebaker has a prop rod and it's always in the way to work on it, or is's falling out, or the wind lifts the hood and drops it all. No Thanks. I'll rework them to a McMaster Carr equivalent if I must. I did that with the rear hatch and it's now higher, and still holds it up at -25°F.
Sounds like there are some resources now that the part numbers have been posted.
Good Luck All!
Your choice, they are readily available. IIRC, have replaced my struts, twice, they die. Have had hoods slammed shut by wind gusts, with good/new struts. We sometimes run devices like jackhammer, pressure washer, etc, off of the battery, having the hood slam, short to the clamps would not be a good thing?
You can imagine that it's some huge investment. We collect prop rods on pick & pull runs, the holes are there, pop in a grommet, snap in the clip, done, ~$10 deal, have done lots of them. Rods are simple, solid, more reliable, no "inventing" needed, so pick your poison.