66 Fury - remove cowl grill

[pinkiedog64]

Trying to remove the cowl grill on my 66 Fury wagon. I've removed the wiper arms, the lower windshield trim, and all the screws holding the cowl grill on. It is loose, but I haven't been able to fanagle it out. I'm not able to get it off because it won't clear where the aft corners of the hood are. Do you have to remove the hood? Or disconnect the hood torsion springs and let the hood open more? Or something else?

 

[pinkiedog64]

Disregard. Got it off by removing the aft bolts from the hood hinge-to-hood joint and loosening the fwd ones. That let the aft end of the hood rise up enough to get the cowl grill out. Now to vacuum decades worth of leaves and bugs out and lube the wiper mechanism while I'm there!

 

[darth_linux]

yep, just loosen the rear hood bolts and let it swing forwards . . .

 

[D Cluley]

I put some black aluminum window screen material on the underside of mine. It is nearly invisible from the outside, and keeps stuff from falling down in there.