I just noticed this today while cleaning under the hood. It seems the tube part of the strut is rubbing against one of the bolts on the fender, and it appears that the bracket attached to the hood is rubbing on a small area on the fender as well. I've attached pics, and circled all the parts that are rubbing. Anybody else experience this, or did I just measure wrong when I did the installation?
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Originally posted by sammyboy405Originally posted by EmersonHart13Hold on I will go look....
And I am back. I have the ones on the fender. And it appears perhaps the beginning of one on the cylinder.
http://www.redlinetuning.com/QL-PON-G6-05+.html
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Originally posted by bristol16Originally posted by sammyboy405Originally posted by EmersonHart13Hold on I will go look....
And I am back. I have the ones on the fender. And it appears perhaps the beginning of one on the cylinder.
http://www.redlinetuning.com/QL-PON-G6-05+.html
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make that three
mine arent as bad as yours, and i for sure have them tucked into the hood as far as they can go
i took a close look at it and seems like the metal piece that is rivoted bends out toward car
if could bend back a little would fix that rubbing problem, and the one on the bolt would either have to sand bolt down some or replace with a smaller one
the strut is rubbing way worse than the the the other
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__Thanks for pointing this out to us... we will look into to it from our end and see what we come up with. It appears that there is very tight tolerance in the fender lip area where they are installed. A quick and easy fix is to lower your hood, letting it rest on the latch before closing. Look down the fender line from the front and not exactly where the contact is being made. Then mark the contactng area of the fender bolt with a marker. Remove the fender bolt, file down the contacting area, tough up with body color tough-up paint and then reinstall.
__By doing so you should be able to solve this problem. There is one other vehicle that has a similar problem - the 79-98 Mustang - they have fender bolt in the same position that is impossible to avoid. A slight filing and reinstallation will solve this problem - we will update the installation manual.
Thanks,
Brian
Redline Tuning
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I noticed the rubbing too but I just thought it was my inexperience on the install.Looks like when I pull my headlights I'll have some other things to do under the hood.2005 G6 GT, body kit, red calipers, redline elite hood lifts, pan roof, tan leather interior, monsoon 6-disk, 17" crome rims, Dr. Speed stage 3 CAI, Strut tower brace, White painted headlights
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i dont have the quicklifts, but it looks like you could just put a rubber cover over that bolt on the fender? some little 10 cent thing from lowes or something...thats just a thought...seems easierYou're doing it all wrong...you gotta cup the balls, relax the jaw...
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I removed the body bolts and took them to the bench grinder. Grinded the little ridge off the top and re-painted them. I'll let you know in a couple of days if the new paint is wearing. I also bent the hood brackets up a little to see if that helps.2005 G6 GT, body kit, red calipers, redline elite hood lifts, pan roof, tan leather interior, monsoon 6-disk, 17" crome rims, Dr. Speed stage 3 CAI, Strut tower brace, White painted headlights
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