I decided that I wanted to run TJ hood latches.


There are a couple of reasons for my decision on this, one reason is that I like the look of them and they "go" with my "no chrome" theme that I have going in my head. The other reason is pretty simple, of the two hoods that I got I had half of one hood latch.


So it was either buy a set of old school original style hood latches and bolt them up or buy a set of newer type latches, weld up the holes in the hood, come up with a way to mount them, design and build parts to make it work, and then have the part(s) powder coated.


I chose to do the latter!


This is the final design of the bottom bracket after figuring where I needed to bolt up the top half of the latch.