4Runner Hood Scoop

[Jonah F]

I have a 2001 Sport. Love the truck - 120,000 miles, runs great - it has a hood scoop - obviously just for looks. At any speed over 55 the hood shakes - anyone else experiencing this and is there anyway to fix it?

 

[RonMAIDEN]

Check your latch and check where the hood connects to the body and make sure everything is tight.

 

[004Gunner]

Sorry no way to fix that but I can trade you the standard hood for the scoop hood straight up and that will fix the shake

 

[02sport]

do you have a bug deflector on? i heard that causes the hood "flutter". there was someone a while back making/selling some sort of brace to resolve it.
found a link here

 

[sant6236]

There are 2 black runner knobs, one on each side that allow one to tighten the way the hood latches.

These two rubber knobs have a spring like mechanism inside of them, so when one simply turns the knob to the right and left, it will either tighten or losen the way the hood latches to the car.

Only way to find out if its working is to tighten and loosenthese knobs, whichever you ar etrying to achieve, and then shut the hood to see how tight the hood latches.

In your case, if one were to loosen the rubber knobs, (turning left), this will privde the hood with a tighter latch.

I have done this to mine. What spurred me to do it was when I would be driving down the highway at 80, I could see my hood fluttering up and down from the wind.

 

[rollingthunder]

totally off topic my oldest son's name is Jonah he's 9, cool coicidence

 

[ric]

never really noticed before, but what I did soon after I got it, I cut that scoope "cup" out, but Im not sure if the hood shacked before that.