My nephew is coming home from Afghanistan tomorrow and I'm trying to finish up a hood replacement on his air cooled 1995 Z440. The new hood is from a liquid cooled sled and does not have the cooling air scoop. I cut/ground the old scoop from his old hood and cut the air holes is the new, now I need to glue it onto the new hood. Anybody know what the brown/red tough tough glue that the factory uses is? The scoop is glued under the three rectangular holes directly above the bright green with the orange tail of the Z going through it.
Glue
- Thread starter eyeman
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Epoxy
I have seen people use PL400, JB weld, and RTV 2 part epoxy to adhere the shroud back on the hood. Three things to remember: clean both surfaces to get all grease and oil. rough up both side with very coarse sand/grinding app's. Glue and tape down the shroud in the warmest place you can (most of this stuff doesn't work in the cold). I like the PL idea the best but have not seen how long it last.
I have seen people use PL400, JB weld, and RTV 2 part epoxy to adhere the shroud back on the hood. Three things to remember: clean both surfaces to get all grease and oil. rough up both side with very coarse sand/grinding app's. Glue and tape down the shroud in the warmest place you can (most of this stuff doesn't work in the cold). I like the PL idea the best but have not seen how long it last.
phazerpilot
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3m,norton,sem and lord fusor all make fast set epoxies for the application you are doing but they are not cheap. most automotive paint suppliers will carry a least one brand of them. all use a 2 plunger caulking gun with a static mixer on cartridge
