What an F****** Nightmare!
Well, the good news is tha I got the hood mounted today and it looks great! Had to grind down the metal latch in the hood, but now it works just fine. Looks really sweet. Already had some guy tell me he like the front end.
Now, for the $hitty part of my day. I also had the spacers installed. They went on really easily, so no problems there. The fit fine, nuts torqued up fine. So as I'm leaving the shop, I turn left, and the front right wheel comes off!
It bounces up into the new fiberglass fender, and so now I have a nice cracked fender that already needs to be replaced after a week! Mother F*****! I am so pissed. Anyhow, even though the X is lifted and I'm now driving down the street on three wheels, no danger of a rollover at all. Rollover thing is just BS. I did grind a little off the inside edge of my brake rotor though. Rest of the Explorer is just fine, just the fender got f***ed. So I go back tot he shop (I had only gotten 500 feet) and they come over and help me jack it up and put the wheel back on. I drive slowly back to the shop and they take the spacers off. Looks like the lugs were the wrong size, but were just big enough to engage the threads and torque down properly. But when I started driving, the lateral force just popped the lug nuts right off, and WHOOPS there goes the wheel. I'm going to have to call the spacer company and have a chat with them. Oh, and did I mention that it's been raining all day, so I got nice and wet while doing this crap.
Other than that it's been a lovely day here!
On a positive note, the hood does look bad-a$$ and I will trt and post some pice tonight if I get a chance.
