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Yes...moving those hood springs is a trick requiring, as I remember, vice grips and pry bars and padded things to prevent the spring from whacking you good. Mine are at tightest adjustment. Must be just metal fatigue in the springs...if the extra layer(s) of paint aren't at fault for hood (or bonnet?) droop. Re/ Mileage for a 72 T3 FI being acceptable at about 22 mpg, that's a sort of relief...though the idea of VWs being "good on gas" is from an earlier time, I suppose, relative to 60s and 70s Belchfire bombs. It seems that such cars may not be up to contemporary urban area highway levels because of the speed thing. Modern cars on 65 MPH highways go 75 and 80+ routinely, thus making a 65 or even 70 mph VW almost a stand-still obstacle. People always say "put a Porsche engine in it". THAT might solve the heavy paint problem by blowing the paint right off. Probably wouldn't help the MPG situation though. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~