Spiker Engineering High lift hood struts for the 3rd Gen Tacoma

WOW. My kit was waiting for me on the porch!!

 

Just finished mine. Had to make a trip to harbor freight for a bigger rivet gun, but other than that, pretty easy.

Video of it opening
https://youtu.be/aIUYdTFyGyE

 

Looks great! And love the sticker

 

Looks like you're all ready for the first project when you do get the truck - hood struts . Which is how Toyota should have built them.

 

Looks like you have a project for tomorrow!

 

Thanks for the video - looks great!

 

We found in the past that there are some minor variabilities from truck to truck and installation to installation, so to help us fine tune our products, it'd be great to get some feedback from those who already installed our hood struts. If you can post the following info, which would require just a tape measure and a fish/luggage scale, that would be great:

1. Height of hood above stock prop rod height (first figure below)

2. Pull force to get the hood to start closing (second figure)

Thanks in advance!

Height above stock prop rod:



Pull force (pull perpendicular to hood):

 

Don’t have a scale so I’ll just post hood height.

5.25” above normal support rod height.

 

Rain/Temperature dependent!

 

I start to get motion around 14lbs and 15lbs of continuous force is when it closes

 

You forgot to ask for temp. This time of the year it might matter.

 

Thanks for the order Vic!

 

No sign of mine since they got to the USPS Regional Facility in LA on the 13th...F*N USPS.

*This is not the fault of Spiker Eng.*

They've gone downhill ever since I left, LOL.

 

Good point, we forget about that here in CA... The force output will definitely vary with temp, around +/-10% for most cases, closer to 20% for those doing this at -30F (you know who you are!).

So yes, a temperature reading would be helpful too, especially if it's far from the 50-70F range.

 

Perfect, thank you!

 

USPS Priority works in mysterious ways: some packages get across the country in two days, others take a week to get across just two states (like yours). I just checked on yours, it says as of Jan 17th, "in transit to next facility", not super helpful. I'm expecting you'll get it Tue/Wed (Monday is a holiday).

 

You saw exactly what I did, but I appreciate your taking the time to look.

I'm sure they'll get here eventually...at the same time as the next blizzard. LOL.

 

I may tackle mine tomorrow. I have to drill out the rivets from the Redline first.

 

Shoulda been like me and procrastinated... now I just have to list a ‘new in box’ set of redlines.

 

Ah, a man of culture, as well.