Re: Engine Hood Release Cable

["Arun Rao" <rao@quattro>]

> Subject: RE: Engine Hood Release Cable
> >HI All!
> >
> >	Who's got a solution to opening the engine hood when the release cable
is
> >broken.
> ><<snippage>>
> >Anyway, went into my '86 this morning, pulled on the release handle and
> "snap" ... no cable ...
> <<more snippage>>
> >Any ideas on opening the engine hood, and general guidelines on
> >replacing the cable?


	As you've probably heard by now, you can pop the hood by inserting
	a *long* skinny screwdriver through the grille (or you may have
	to remove the headlights) and pushing at the levers.

	It always fails because the two plastic golf-tee-like pieces that
	the cable runs through are prone to break with age. Once they break
	(usually the stem), the cable keeps working itself free of the
	loops at the end of the spring-loaded levers that release the hood.

	Replacement is drop-dead simple: there's a cable clamp at one end
	which you need to loosen and remove, and the tees just slide off.
	My '91 has metal ones, so you should be able to get those as
	replacements.  Doesn't look like they'd ever break.

	-Arun


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Arun Rao
Pixar Animation Studios
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(510) 215-3526