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Tue Mar 11, 2025 7:03 am

Good morning and thanks for dropping into my daily question thread...

One of the many things to correct on this little beauty is the hood. The hood skin and the hood frame have become separated. Before I put any kind of sound deadener on, I'd like to rebond the frame to the skin.

Any preferred method for this or sealer that will hold. I believe I'd have to remove the old crap, sand, bond, prime, paint the underside.

Thu Jun 12, 2025 5:27 pm

Just wondering, that looks like seam sealer in there? Were they not spot welded at least? If they were just sealed up from the factory, and nothing has been bent out of shape then I would guess that theoretically you could scrape out the old and re-seal it.

Fri Jul 11, 2025 8:35 am

TeamSpatula wrote: Just wondering, that looks like seam sealer in there? Were they not spot welded at least? If they were just sealed up from the factory, and nothing has been bent out of shape then I would guess that theoretically you could scrape out the old and re-seal it.

Didn't think of that. Are any of the spot welded or are they just sealed?

Yes, the seal has come loose and does need to be scraped out/reapplied but I'm worried about pulling the hood skin inwards by doing that

Thu Aug 14, 2025 11:37 am

Ironically I just bumped into this myself, with headliner and padding now removed in my Rabbit, one of the roof braces has done pretty much the same thing. I'm planning to clean up the area, and going to try using seam sealer on it to get it back in place. We'll see how that works.

Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:58 am

Use 3m Window weld or any other urethane windshield adhesive.

Thu Aug 21, 2025 8:52 am

TDCTDI wrote: Use 3m Window weld or any other urethane windshield adhesive.

Windshield adhesive? Interesting

Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:29 am

This is the modern product that's used for this application.
3M Flexible Foam 08463 (available thru Amazon)

Mon Sep 08, 2025 5:42 am

stoltzt66 wrote: This is the modern product that's used for this application.
3M Flexible Foam 08463 (available thru Amazon)

Thank you!

Have you used this before? Don't I need a special "gun" for it?

What type of prep work should be done prior?

Wed Sep 10, 2025 12:33 pm

mhodge00 wrote: stoltzt66 wrote: This is the modern product that's used for this application.
3M Flexible Foam 08463 (available thru Amazon)

Thank you!

Have you used this before? Don't I need a special "gun" for it?

What type of prep work should be done prior?

Sorry, I have not used this personally, but in my searching, this is what modern car companies use on hood skins and body panel gaps.

Amazon has plastic (cheaper) guns for these tubes and mixing tips.

Prep work is probably similar to when using 2 part epoxy.

Thu Sep 25, 2025 12:51 pm

I didn't take any pics, but I just bought a tube of automotive seam sealer off Ebay, like $19, and it fit in a standard caulking gun. That seems to have done the trick so far.