 What's up you guys? Gold Pony here today. Today we have some Ford Performance Hoodstruts. It's about time right? We are going to be doing an install video. Alright so let me first start by saying this video is way way way overdue. I've actually had these for quite a while but anyways this is honestly one of the most inexpensive mods and if you do plan on working on your car quite often the Ford Performance Hoodstruts are definitely going to be helpful because as you guys can see got a little prop rod in the way for now so we're gonna fix that today. Courtesy of CJ Pony Parts. I'm gonna put the link to these Ford Performance Hoodstruts in the description box below so for free to click that link if you wanted to get these I think they're like $71 that's it there are some discount codes I think you can find on like Retail Me Not or something like that so they're gonna be there too but anyways very inexpensive mod CJ Pony Parts is where to get them. So what do you say? Let's go ahead and start this installation. Alright so let me first start by showing you guys what is actually in the box here. I might as well take these out. Ford Performance Hoodstruts themselves of course. Don't roll away from me. Instructions for installing your Mustang Hoodstruts here. Got some hardware of course that's gonna be needed. Perhaps the only tool that some of you guys may or may not have it's the step drill bit. This is gonna be recommended because we're actually gonna do a little bit of drilling here but up to the one inch mark but this is maybe the only thing you guys may not have so I got this one off of Amazon a while back so that's one round. It's probably the cheapest route or you can probably go to laser him deep out but anyhow that's gonna be included and needed for this installation so I'm gonna grab the rest of my tools and let's begin. Alright so first thing we're gonna do is install this bracket onto this thing and you got to make sure you grab the correct one. Let me just say because if you put this like this it's not gonna line up but if you grab the correct one this is gonna go here and this is gonna this little 90 degree angle here it's just gonna kind of sit there and then this is actually gonna sit inside there like that but anyhow all we're gonna do is just connect this nut slide this thing in reconnect the nut once again put this thing in there and that will take care of that side. Another thing you guys want to make sure of is since that 90 degree angle just make sure it's all the way pressed down and that bracket is done. Alright so next thing I'm going to do is remove the battery cover here there's actually three little clips or turn screw dohicky thingies I don't know what the terminology is there's one there there's one there and there's one there so we're gonna take these off remove the battery cover and then we're gonna drill into the battery cover I'll show you guys that in one second here. Alright you guys so the next thing that actually comes with this hoodstruck kit here is a business card that is not already cut out like this one I think I think Bill has already done the work for me here thanks Bill. I didn't actually cut any of this out. So it's a business card you just use scissors you cut out the little the perimeter the outlining and then what we're gonna do is kind of match that up this is gonna match up with that crease right there this is gonna match up with that hole and then you're gonna use a punch I don't have a punch so we're gonna use this screw to make a little hole a little mark just so you know where to drill I can see that can you guys I can see it. Alright next part is the fun part I get to use oh my gosh why is this thing so sticky gross I get to use the step drill bit this is gonna be pretty exciting. Go! Oh yeah just so I don't drill into my garage here I'm gonna put this on top of a box. Alright a little bit of work here to do on my part I'm gonna clean this up a little bit and then we're gonna move on to the next step. Alright so it said that this next part is the trickiest part about this hoodstruck installation I don't think it sounds all that tricky but I guess if you're gonna assign the the worst part about this installation it's gonna be this so next thing we're gonna do is we're going to get this up inside there so what you're gonna have to do is put it in even with it and then kind of turn it while it's in there so that this is going back and forth like that so that when you pull up it's not gonna come up because this is underneath of it but the only thing I would say because somebody's gonna ask this is you guys can notice there's two little circular doohickeys on the one of them and on the other one there are not two little circular doohickeys and see if you guys can see it this one with the circular doohickeys it's gonna go on the left side this is the best installation video ever this is gonna go on the left side because that's what Bill did at CGPainting Parts so we're gonna do that once you have it in position kind of lift up on it as you're turning it and that'll kind of hold it in place then this is where I'm gonna have to scrounge around for an allen key that's actually how you're gonna be tightening that so Ford put a torque spec on this if you have a torque wrench it's 20 pound feet or 20 foot pound however you want to say it so I don't so we're just gonna tighten it it was pretty darn tight to me next step we're gonna put the battery cover back on gonna put it around nothing first and then around the rest of it back in now we just got to put the clips back on all right battery cover reassembled next step we're gonna simply just put the hud struts in place they just clip in place they're slightly different so they do appear to be side-specific so obviously I'm gonna use this one for this side and this one is gonna be the other side but what you want to do with these don't fall is make sure the Ford performance is facing outwards and then we just clip and don't fall dang it alright so to make this lineup I was using the prop rod to actually try to get this clipped in place but it's not gonna work because it doesn't go back for enough so you got to let the prop ride go just manually lift the hood up a little bit and oh there we go so that's in place and now we got to do the other side all right and so now in theory this other side should be a little bit easier because you don't have any battery over there so all we got to do is simply do the top bolt first then we do the bottom bolt clip into place and that should be good now for the halfway tricky part make sure this thing doesn't like slide around when you're using that mr. Allen here what I do is I just hold the little knobby thingy with my left hand and tighten it with one right so it doesn't go anywhere stays in place and by the way again if you guys like this thing source videos make sure you like this video so that I know now we'll do more of them for you once again our beautiful Ford performance hood struts sure the Ford performance is facing out so everybody knows how cool you are and what we're gonna do is click click hey it is done there is no well hang on we are not done I got to get rid of this prop rod this installation is not complete without disassembling this bolt here getting rid of this ugly prop rod once and for all but dang it's holding itself up that's so exciting let's get rid of the prop rod all right once again it looks like a 10 millimeter here so let's do this think that's kind of ugly that silver thing let's just go ahead and put this back on and she got the prop rod is gone I'm sorry that was a stupid voice and we good son let me explain to you guys something I got my degree in economics I am not a mechanic I don't work on cars on a daily basis I like playing around with them every now and then no get me wrong but what I'm trying to say is this was a super easy installation definitely would recommend these four performance hood struts to anybody wanted to get rid of this ugly prop rod and they're not even that expensive there's $71 in some change again the link it's in the description box below big thank you seriously Bill from CJ pony parts Chris all you guys CJ pony parts you're awesome I do appreciate this and we have a guest appearance anyways wifey says dinner is ready so time to go back in do appreciate you guys watching you yo yo yo yo I'm getting stupid that means I'm getting delirious and by the way let me show you guys something real quick I got this about a month ago I love this thing craftsman edger like I was using my weed whacker before to get these super straight lines that everybody loves but watch this look at this look at this line you guys it is so precise actually it's a little crooked I guess but still it is super crisp like a golf course kind of thing I love my craftsman edger and that is about it for this one you guys loving the hood struts I am super happy with them this is cool appreciate you guys watching again like the video if you want to see more stengosaurus videos feel free to follow me on social media I'll see you guys in the next video thank you for watching they go this is so stupid I'll be stupid this whole video I'm sorry you guys but I think I ended with bye I apologize about that stay gold