{Chrysler 300} 300C hood latch adjustment

["Henry A. Mitchell III" <hamlll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I need to adjust my 300C hood latch so I read the C D E Hood Latch Adjustment article listed in the Tech Department. I look down into the latch cavity and, indeed, there are two catches. However, my hood pin seems short of reaching the lower latch. I can get the hood pin to extend to the lower latch but the jam nut on the inside of the hood (not the integral nut attached permanently to the hood itself) only has one or two threads attaching it to the hood pin. That sems counterintuitive, or wrong. Maybe I don’t have the factory hood pin or the factory latch but they both look like they belong. My current hood pin is about 4 inches long from the threaded end to the latch surface on the hood pin head, or about 4 ½ inches end to end. The article mentions that the Club sells a safety catch which may or may not include a longer hood pin or a shallower latch. The article also mentions a pop-up spring, which I see in the Chrysler manual, but what the manual shows is completely different than the 300 version.

What am I missing here? I could add a second jam nut to the hood pin on the lower (read visible) side of the hood pin to reinforce the jam nut that is up inside the hood. I really want to get this right. I notice that the hood begins to waffle at about 60-70-80 mph.

 

Henry Mitchell

300C

 

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