Rear deck lid alignment pin

I think Goran Malmberg in Sweden built a big tubular X-member (removable) over the ZF to brace the giant hole in the stressed body for the decklid. His 426 Hemi's torque kind of stressed the monococque more than usual.

Much simpler that that (or the factory's three latch iterations trying to fix this problem) is to glue little rubber tire patches to the outside of the weatherstrip channel, and let the sucker shake. Fixed my paint chipping back in the late '80s without drilling or welding. The patches are almost invisible.

You can weld in a piece at the decklid too.

Custom decklid bumpers | JanDaMan | Flickr

Tom,

Interesting idea. Do you hear any squeaking from the pin?

I need to do something asap as my car just experienced the damage you described.  

Tom,  Here is another idea that I saw at our OC Panteras' General Meeting Social in March.  Louis (Panera Owner) install some hood pins, but did not go through the deck lid, they are just alignment pins on both sides.  real clean look, can't tell they are on the car unless you open the deck lid.

Deck Lid

I was just going to suggest that last night.

One (minor) complication is you have to also penetrate the tub, if you want to use it with this modification.

I would suspect Larry’s approach would provide good rigidity.  I believe you could install the pins through the rear light buckets, after removing tail lights.

@Rocky - You are correct, you access the pin through the taillights on both sides.  Remove the taillights.  You can just notch the trunk tub so you can install and remove easily.  Louis, did this mod because he was tried of touching up his paint on the corners of his deck lid and rear corners.  He said it worked great.  Larry

yes, that's a simple solution as well, beats chipped paint the easy way.

The single pin I use bolts to the latch. no body or lid penetrations. The welding was done in the creation of the pin with a metal tab.

When I saw  the solution from Louis, I really liked it… especially that the hole in the deck lid is in the webbing…!! Nylon bushings would be nice…

Here is a photo of the pins with the trunk tub installed.

Here is my take on this

I came up with a little more complicated setup, with adapted parts from Porsche 914 and Lada Niva... A little too much work.

WE LIKE EXTRA WORK AS LONG AS IT WORKS AND LOOKS GOOD.

THANK YOU

...My 5 Second, No Expense Solution to the Problem of 'The Side Shifting Decklid'.

1 Inch of Rubber Fuel Hose Split Down one side. 'Clamps-On' and has stayed in Place for 20 Years. NO Damage to Report! And Yes! I do Drive Aggressively! and they are fully removable at will.

Good solution with a black hood, but imagine the same thing with a yellow hood, or red or any color other than black?

Some call it damage others call it improvement!
@marlinjack did a lot of improvements personalizations on his car! It’s cool.😎
I do a lot of “damage”  to my car..

peace out ✌️

In my opinion there were a number of good solutions presented above. Had I thought of some of them I might have done the same. The fact that some required holes is really no big deal.  The shifting hood was the problem to be solved because it caused visible damage. What's really important is that we have a car that we care about and have a lot of fun with, either by working on it or diving it. If you didn't drive it like it is meant to be driven, the hood wouldn't shift. Why have any car if it doesn't fulfil its purpose.

@tomkuester posted:

In my opinion there were a number of good solutions presented above. Had I thought of some of them I might have done the same. The fact that some required holes is really no big deal.  The shifting hood was the problem to be solved because it caused visible damage. What's really important is that we have a car that we care about and have a lot of fun with, either by working on it or diving it. If you didn't drive it like it is meant to be driven, the hood wouldn't shift. Why have any car if it doesn't fulfil its purpose.