Hiho-
I'm using bear claw door latches at each rear corner of the tilt nose on my car. They work well but the problem is that the nose (fiberglass) is much heavier than a door, not to mention it opens up instead of out, so when the latches are popped, the springs aren't heavy enough to push the pin up out of the jaws the nose just sits there. I could rig up another spring to keep constant upward pressure on the nose so it would pop when the latches are released and it would probably work ok but keeping constant pressure on the 'glass & latch pin doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. Conversely, it looks like the spring in the bearclaw latch itself isn't actually activated until the latch is popped, so there is no pressure on the pin itself under normal conditions when the nose is down and latched. Has anyone changed these springs for heavier ones?
thanks, Bill