Slalom4me

Recently, I felt the hood release was feeling a little more springy and
the hood was a little more reluctant to pop open. Although I have a
hood release tool, I preferred not to wait until the cable broke.

For an '89, the p/n is: #10250486 Cable Asm

Some pointers.

• on an '89, there is a push-on 'speed nut' that holds the hush panel in
  place above the toes between the brake and gas pedals. For best results, use
  a fork-shaped upholstery tool to remove this - or pry it off with a screw driver.
• once the small rectangular trim panel surrounding the release lever has been
  removed, use a mirror to see the Phillips screw that holds the lever and the
  cable retaining clip in place. Look for it ahead of the ends of the cable
  housings. Work the Phillips up between the two cables at an angle - should be
  perpendicular to the release handle.
• although it looks like the sound underlay needs to come out to reach the
  grommet, this is not the case. I was able to pull up the edge of the underlay.
• there is a round plastic collar inserted into the cone shaped grommet where
  the cables pass through the firewall. You can see it in the picture below.
  This needs to move back out of the grommet toward the passenger compartment.
  After trying to grab it from the inside of the pass compartment, I changed tactics
  and used a large screw driver to push through the grommet against the collar from
  the engine compartment. A patient person could probably do this without tearing
  the grommet.

While I hope I won't need to use Gordon Killebrew's Hood Latch Release
tool in the foreseeable future, I realized that I'd never tested it with a
dry run and I didn't know HOW to use it.

Since it is easier to practice when you can see what you are doing, I did
this while the hood was open and took a picture with the thought this might
help someone else down the road.



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ittlfly

Nice write up.

thecatmac

Changed mine last year. I did not have the tool last year. I had to take the pass. side wheel and wheel well off, stick my arm up there and move the locking device by hand, but I did it! Too bad I can't figure out how to make my hood pop up! It is loose, I just have to pull it up.

AGENT 86

Awhile back someone posted on how to add a zip tie to the latch for emergency entry. Anyone got that pic

Da Mail Man

1)........I PURCHASED SOME STOUT PICTURE HANGING WIRE FROM A
LOCAL BUILDERS SUPPLY STORE AND 4 "CRIMP" LUGS (SO-TO- SPEAK).

2).......I DRILLED A SMALL HOLE IN THE HOOD LATCH PIN RECEIVER
AND FISHED THE WIRE THROUGH THE HOLE AND WRAPPED
SNUGLY AROUND THE HOOD LATCH "ARM" OF WHICH THE HOOD
LATCH CABLE IN THE CAR IS ATTACHED TO.

3)......I THEN CRIMPED THE WIRE TO ITSELF USING THE LUGS AS
MENTIONED ABOVE.

THE OTHER END OF THE WIRE LAYS IN AND NEAR THE WINDSHIELD WIPER ARMS (AND OUT OF SITE).

4).....I THEN TOOK SOME CLEAR OXYGEN TUBING (ANY VACUUM LINE
TUBING WILL WORK WELL) AND FISHED THE WIRE THROUGH IT.

5)......I THEN TOOK THE END OF THAT WIRE AND CRIMPED IT TO
ITSELF.

6)......LASTLY, I LUBED THE HINGE PIN RECEIVER LEVER AND WIRE AND
TUCKED IT OUT OF SIGHT DEEP IN THE WIPER COMPARTMENT.

NOTE;...BE SURE ALL ADJUSTMENTS ARE MADE SO THAT THERE IS SLACK IN THE WIRE AT REST SO THAT THE HOOD WILL LATCH NORMALLY AND THAT THERE IS ENOUGH SLACK TO GRAB THROUGH THE WIPER COMPARTMENT IN CASE OF CABLE FAILURE.


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sorry about the caps as i forgot to kill it. i am also not sure how to resize these picts, so if they are huge, sorry 'bout that!

VenkmanP

Nice! You should submit this as a tech tip.

Da Mail Man

well, i have never done that before. my mistake.

hey, let me ask you a question...are the pages loading up very slowly for you and also, are you able to click on the pict links and pull up the picts?...

the reason i ask is because since the forum was down for maint a few weeks ago, i have been having this trouble and also cannot view picts.......please advise and thanks!

thecatmac

Here is one of your pictures, I think its wold be a good write-up!
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Da Mail Man

i cannot view it for some reason. i have been having problems with my service provider and as we speak, am trying to contact them to replace my thermally intermittant cable modem. i clicked on the link and all it tries to do is load. it will remain that way for hours. i have no computer functionality problems here so, it has to be on the providers end. i hope the picts tured out ok as i cannot see them at all!....grin....

darkred91

Thats great idea I must do that to mine.