I bought the emergency hood release kit from Moss, which basically includes
a cable (without the sleeve) and T-handle, which you thread through a hole
on the passenger firewall and attach to the latch mechanism with a cable
clamp (provided).
I HIGHLY recommend installing the Moss kit or making your own with a spare
cable.I've already had to use it once, when the shoddy aftermarket hood
safety latch (Jim S - please re-engineer!) interfered with the normal cable.
Graham
-----Original Message-----
From: Lumia, John [mailto:jlumia@ball.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:37 AM
To: jtarnow@lehman.com; 6pack
Subject: Re: Hood release
Joshua, the PO on my car put another cable clamp (a brass barrel with a hole
for the cable to pass, and a lockscrew to clamp the cable down) right behind
the cable clamp on the hood release mechanism. Should the cable slip thru
the hood release clamp, it will be picked up by the backup clamp, but
obviously wont help in the case of a broken cable. Better than nothing,
anyway.
John - 1976 TR6
Joshua wrote:>
After reading some horror stories regarding hood release failure what is the
easiest way to install a back up hood release mechanism. Also, while it
hasn't happened to me (yet) what is the best way to get into the hood should
the mechanism fail?
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