Hood: Adjustments

Fitting Adjustment

LONGITUDINAL AND LATERAL CLEARANCE ADJUSTMENT
1. Remove hood lock assembly, loosen the hood hinge nuts and close the hood.
2. Adjust the lateral and longitudinal clearance, and open the hood to tighten the hood hinge mounting bolts to the specified torque.
3. Install the hood lock temporarily, and align the hood striker and hood lock so that the centers of hood striker and hood lock become vertical viewed from the front, by moving the hood lock laterally.
4. Tighten hood lock assembly mounting bolts to the specified torque.

CAUTION: Adjust right/left clearance between hood and each part to the following specification.

Hood and head lamp (B-B) : Less than 2.0 mm (0.08 in)
Hood and fender (C-C) : Less than 1.0 mm (0.04 in)

FRONT END HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT
1. Remove the hood lock and adjust the height by rotating the bumper rubber until the hood becomes 1 to 1.5 mm (0.04 to 0.059 in) lower than the fender.
2. Temporarily tighten the hood lock assembly, and position it by engaging it with the hood striker. Check the hood lock and hood striker for looseness, and tighten the hood lock assembly mounting bolts to the specified torque.

SURFACE HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT
1. Remove hood lock assembly, and adjust the surface height difference of hood and fender according to the fitting standard dimension, by rotating RH and LH bumper rubbers.
2. Install hood lock temporarily, and move hood lock laterally until the centers of striker and lock become vertical when viewed from the front.




3. Make sure that the hood lock secondary latch is properly engaged with the secondary striker with hood's own weight.
4. Make sure that the hood lock primary latch is securely engaged with the hood striker with hood's own weight by dropping hood from approx. 200 mm (7.87 in) height.

CAUTION: Do not drop hood from a height of 300 mm (11.81 in) or more.

5. Move hood lockup and down until striker smoothly engages the lock when the hood is closed.
6. When pulling the hood opener lever gently, make sure that front end of the hood rises by approximately 20 mm (0.79 in) and that hood striker and hood lock primary latch is disengaged. Also make sure that hood opener returns to the original position.
7. After adjustment, tighten lock bolts to the specified torque.

CAUTION: Adjust evenness between hood and fender to the following specification.

Hood and fender (C-C) : 0±1.0 mm (0±0.04 in)