Iv noticed this too, scared the crap out of me the first time it happened. I think they should have made the hood a bit stronger. It seems to me thats its caused more from the hood flexing than the clamps not being stout enough.

 

I had my jeep in for this and they called jeep to find out the fix. Jeep told them they were "working" on a fix, along with the stall bug and the ESP problems. And my '04 Unlimited never made any movement on the highway at any speed.

 

Hood Pins will be the only way to "secure" the hood.

The hood is held shut wuth rubber straps. It may be unnerving to some of you, but there really should be no issue with it. I have ridden shotgun is several TJs where the hood picks up a little in high winds or when passing rigs. I also had a '73 CJ5. The hood on it lifted in the same circumstances.

So long as the secondary latch is properly adjusted, there will be no problems.

The hood on my JK does lift a bit when I'm at high speeds, and lifts a bit more when I am passing rigs on the interstate. At first, yes, it gets your attention. After watching it and checking the latches, I am not worried about it. The hood on my ZJ wiggles a bit when I pass rigs... so does my wife's Tahoe...

If you are considering making something to replace the rubber in the hood latches, then you have to take into account that the rubber extends about halfway to the "locked" position, and then retracts, holding tension and keeping the latch closed. Making something solid would be tough. Unless you worked something UNDER the hood to "give" as you latched it down... it won't work. This is very similar to systems used in many other vehicles. I have never heard of any CJ. YJ or TJ hood latches failing.

If you are super concerned about it, you can put the AEV hood on it.
I like it... I'm just broke.

 

I've got something in the works that doesn't rely on the "breakover cam action giant rubber band" system, and will mostly retain the stock mounting hardware.
I'll keep everyone posted as things work out.

FWIW, mine moves like crazy, I've had passengers lean forward and really look at what's happening, it is the latches flexing. If it were just the center section of the hood moving, I believe that it would eventually develop deformations along the bend lines.

 

My problem was deffinitely the little rubberbands flexing.

We had alot of wind this weekend, and i did another long weekend travel. What i noticed was that if i drove directly into the wind it wasn't quite so bad.....until i came up behind another vehicle, then not only my hood, but my soft top would start flopping around. Driving with the wind is the best scenario. Seems like i had no movement at any point driving this way.

However, the extreme movement, which was the majority of the time cause i was driving west to east, was during the cross winds. if i was getting blown from either side ( should have used different phrasing), the hood movement was quite violent. Worse than last weekend. there were times that i could even hear it forcefully slam into the metal latch.

Come on buddy, these are Jeeps, quit being so negative . The Jeep nation was built by people that made things out of the crap they had sitting around the house. Surely if DC doesn't figure something out, We could come up with something that would require no Drilling or Cutting.

B

 

My '83 CJ-7 and '90 YJ didn't do it..

 

my 97 TJ would do it under the right conditions

and a few CJ's i have driven or ridden in have done it too

 

i was refering to the comment posted about replacing the "rubber band" with something solid. I dont want to knock thier idea... just openly suggesting that if they fab something up, they will probably have to engineer a thicker rubber bushing or snubber UNDER the hood to allow the latch to pass it's tention point.

sure.. alot of us that have been fabricating stuff for our Jeeps will come up with something... I would just rather spend my time on other things... like winch mounts... front skid plates... stuff like that.

 

Look up at the edge of the hood next time you have it open, there are bump blocks already in place

 

I don't think mine is flexing at the side latches that much. Mine has only done it a handful of times. However I just got a hood lock for the center latch. It will only let the center latch come up an inch if that. It still lifted the same amount as it did before and it did not bend up at the latches with it held at the middle. It rose up level and back down.

I also had an interesting thought. My 82 CJ7 has never done this. The seal under the hood is practically worthless. Maybe we are going in the wrong direction. Has anyone put in hood vents to allow the higher air pressure under the hood out so it doesn't lift it?