Removing
1. Raise the hood and secure it with the stop.
2. Cover the mudguards of both fenders with special covers or just old blankets to protect the paintwork. Pay special attention to protecting the areas located at the corners of the hood.
3. Disconnect the windshield washer fluid supply hose from the hoses on the hood (see accompanying illustration).
4. Circle the hinge plates with a marker, marking their location on the hood.
5. Give bolts of fastening of plates of loops to a cowl, remove washers. With the help of an assistant, remove the hood from the car.
Installation
1. With the help of an assistant, install the hood on the car, fixing it in front with a stop.
2. Screw in the bolts of fastening to the hood of the hinge plates (do not forget to install washers under their heads). Align the hinges in accordance with the landing marks made during the dismantling process, only after that you can firmly tighten the bolts.
3. Ask an assistant to hold the hood lock in the open position with a drive cable, close the hood yourself.
4. Check up correctness of an arrangement of lateral edges of a cowl in relation to wings of the car and a back edge in relation to the body panel.
5. If adjustment is necessary, loosen the bolts securing the hinges to the hood and adjust the position of the hood accordingly.
6. Check up serviceability of functioning of the lock of a cowl. When the lock is released, the hood should lift slightly with a jerk, allowing your fingers to reach the latch retainer.
7. To adjust the lock, loosen the fixing bolts (see accompanying illustration) and slide the lock in the required direction. Tighten the bolts.
1 - lock
2 - bolts