Got a set of bonnet struts 2day need help!

[chopsy]

As said i got a set of bonnet struts today along with the things that connect them to the gaurd and bonnet.I have the holes in my bonnet for the struts but the little ball thing that screws into the hole on my bonnet is to small has anyone had this problem ? have forgotten a part ? if not can someone help me out on how i can attach it to my bonnet.Any help or idea's would be greatly appreciated as i want to get these on my car a.s.a.p.

 

[g00gz]

I see you have a vn, i never knew vn's had holes in the bonnett for the gas struts..? Are you sure the screw things are from a commodore? Possible solution: just spot weld around the the base when the ball thing is in and that should hold it.

 

[hakhawk]

the vn has the hole, but not the nut.you will have too either get the ball welded on, play around with getting a nut down behind the hole, or pick up a vp bonnet.

 

[chopsy]

Thanks fellas i think i'll try and get a nut in their first i ws chatting with acouple of others last night and they said it's possible to get a nut in the bonnet as they have done it.It's a bit of mucking around be you can do it i been told.

 

[chopsy]

I got my bonnet struts on today i'm happy with them only problem is the drivers side one is bowed alittle and the strut dont stay up but the passanger side one is perfect.Anyway i have some open ended spanners that have socket ends on the other end of them which made bolting the ball things to the bonnet.I just put the nut into the socket end of the spanner and put it in the bonnet and lined the nut up with the hole then once it was lined up i just screwed the ball thing into it.It was to easy i took about 10mins each side i'm glad i remmembered i have a few of thr spanners i have that have an open end and a socket on the other end cause i dont know how i would have gone trying to use a open ender or a ring spanner cause i dont think you would get it in there.Anyway i thought i'd just give you all an update on my thread as i hope it might help someone out in the future.

 

[stocky]

ok now i need help with these. i dont have the ball thing that goes onto the bonnet because i couldnt get it off the vp bonnet. can i use anything else?

 

[greenfoam]

Why dont you go to Holden and buy the ball ends?? can't be more than a few bucks

 

[stocky]

so theyre the same for all models?

 

[greenfoam]

Go to Holden and see! get the part number for the VP and order it, compare it to later models, whatever you want. Cant see why they would change it at least untill after the VS. It should be in stock, who's going to buy one? apart from you

 

[chopsy]

Same thing happend to me i got one ball end off a vr the other one striped so i got another ball end off a vp they look excactly the same