Spring Loaded Hood Bumper Manufacture

The hood bumper looks pretty complicated initially.

However, it's really only two cylinders with a spring between each one and a flange on the outer one.  With the help of Dave Hoffman, I got several brass ferrules that had about the correct diameters.

The outside ferrule wasn't quite long enough, so I sleeved two of them with a piece of brass tubing, sweat soldering them together.  The inside ferrule got the bolt with a brass washer that was soldered to the bottom.  Then the flange was cut and soldered to the outside ferrule. 

Adding the spring, rubber bumper and assembling gave me a hood bumper that looks pretty close to an original.

Here's the final part after cadmium plating.

I also ended up making rubber pads that go between the body and hood bumper.  The rubber tops shown here are ones that I found in a catalog which were close.  Eventually I got hold of an original and had reproduction ones made up.  Click here for that story.