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Install Durango Fresh Air Hood - On With The Good

Durango Fresh Air Hood Underside Hood
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Underside Hood
This is the underside of the Good Hood from Keystone. Notice that it's "finished" just like the top of the hood. We ordered ours with functional cold air induction, hence the cut-out. Non-functional hoods are solid underneath. This is why we didn't re-install the underhood insulation.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Mounting Bolts
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Mounting Bolts
The mounting bolts are molded in at factory locations in both back corners of the Good Hood.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Nutserts
Nutserts are also pre-installed... 
   
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Nutserts
Nutserts are also pre-installed up front for the hood latch mechanism.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Leading Edge
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Leading Edge
This is the only difficulty we encountered: the leading edge of the sheetmetal hood, where the grille attaches, is sheetmetal-thin. The same edge on the fiberglass Good Hood is considerably thicker, so the attaching screws on our grille didn't come all the way through. Had we read the instructions thoroughly, we'd have known that the grille mounting studs need to be removed and replaced with supplied fasteners, making the next step unnecessary.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Mounting Stud
Here Jos is using a die-grinder... 
   
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Mounting Stud
Here Jos is using a die-grinder to carefully thin the mounting stud area on the hood. He did this for every hole that attached the grille, and it solved our non-problem. Always read the instructions first!
Durango Fresh Air Hood Remove Grille
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Remove Grille
After removing the grille and grille support from the factory hood, bolt the grille, sans support bars, to the Good Hood first.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Attach Grille
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Attach Grille
Next, attach the grille support frame to the grille, but don't bolt the support to the hood yet.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Mounting Holes
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Mounting Holes
After making sure the grille lines up with the outer edge of the hood, attach the grille support to the hood using the mounting holes molded into the hood.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Weather Seals
Next, we removed the weather... 
   
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Weather Seals
Next, we removed the weather seal from the front of the factory hood for transfer to the Good Hood.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Mounting Holes
The Good Hood doesn't come... 
   
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Mounting Holes
The Good Hood doesn't come equipped with the mounting holes for this seal, so we laid it in place and transferred the hole locations with a pen.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Drift Punch
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Drift Punch
Jos centered the holes with a drift punch so the drill bit wouldn't walk on the smooth surface.
Durango Fresh Air Hood Underside Panel Drill
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Durango Fresh Air Hood Underside Panel Drill
The holes were then drilled through the underside panel. There is an air gap between the inner and outer skins. That old saying "let the drill do the work" was never more true than it is here: Go slow and don't push the drill through. If you bust through the underhood panel, you can hit the back side of the outer skin, which will leave a spider web crack on the top of the hood for all the world to see.

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