Fairly easy to instal, and a great upgrade. I got mine straight from redline.

 

so no rivet gun needed? if so thats good!

 

Yeah I got mine from Redline too. You need one of those hand held riveters

 

any one know what PSI they are?

I would love to upgrade mine a few pounds

 

I would love those except the ones on my moms mercury are pretty much dead so I have to use a clamp to keep the strut from compressing. Then one time the clamp popped off and the hood almost took my hands off.

 

Hey Wayne what is the diff between the two quick lifts that you have listed?

 

That's why you don't remove the prop rod. In case they do go bad.

 

The cheaper ones are black powder coated steel. The higher dollar are brushed stainless steel. Its an appearance difference. No difference in function.

 

And you get black hardware with the Plus and Elite. I got the regular and painted my hardware black. My buddy ordered regular but they sent him the plus'.

My painted hardware on left and his black ones from Redline on the right.

 

In his case the car never had a prop rod because it was equipped with struts from the factory.

My Cadillac Catera was the same. Struts worked about the first 5 times, then every other time I had to clamp them.

 

whats the difference between the regular and "elite" hood struts?

*edit* Nevermind... lol

 

lol

 

Just ordered some from stuffforyourranger! free shipping FTW!

 

Yeah I was referring to his Ranger, my bad for not stating that.

 

thanks, I'm wanting some but all mods are on hold, unless they are free, for a while, my honeydo list just got real long when we bought our house.

 

my next mod

 

How good do those work in the cold weather? I know on my bed cover, it doest work in the winter.

 

Mine work great in the winter.

 

heh..

oh yeah... THAT's what that mailing tube in the corner of my computer room contains!!

I ordered a set of these for my truck, umm... sheesh.. had to be almost a year ago. I didn't have a hand-held rivet tool in my toolbox, so they didn't get installed that weekend. Thanks for the reminder; maybe I'll get mine installed (finally!) this weekend.

...assuming I can remember to pick up a hand-held rivet tool @ Sears...

 

Older thread but just seeing how everyone's were holding up.

I really want to get these for the truck but one thing that is really holding me back now is that they don't lift the hood high enough.

I had Tein hood struts on my STi for almost 10 years now. It opened just as much as the Ranger's hood struts. I got tired of that and then ordered some new Grimmspeed ones which open the hood almost 90 degrees. Our w211 e350 and our past w209 opens the hood almost 90 degrees. It's one of those things that you don't realize how awesome it is to work in the engine bay until you are able to raise the hood almost a full 90 degrees. Makes lighting, and just in general working in there so much more enjoyable.

I am wondering if replacing with a longer strut would work. For my STi the same mounting location was the same between both brands but the newer ones were simply about a 2" longer/extended strut thus enabling the hood to open higher.

See pictures below for reference.


-Nigel