Dan,
I know the feeling. I adjusted the hood closure on my '66 at one point
and had the same thing happen.
The latch on the '66 is different than the one on my '69 was, in that it
is designed so that if the cable breaks, the latch opens!! A nice
feature! Anyway, I pulled the hood release and held it out with a pair
of vise grips and fooled around for awhile with a vacuum cup, trying to
wiggle the hood around enough to pop it open, no success. I finally
decided the only way to get it open would be to deliberately break the
cable, or pull it out of the latch, so the "emergency" feature would
work. I'm not sure why I thought that would help, now, but I was
getting desperate. I took the knob off, put the vise grips on the cable
shaft, gave a mighty tug, and the hood popped open!!!!! It didn't break
or damage anything.
Don't know if this will work for you, nor if your latch is the same
design as mine. You MIGHT just make things worse this way :-( Let us
know how how you solve it, ok?
Barrie
'66 2000
San Diego
Dan Zubkoff wrote:
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> But, an hour later, when I released the hood latch, the hood didn't pop up,
> as it always had. The hood opening cable appears to be working properly, but
> the hood is still shut solid. I have tried at least 10 times over the past
> week, but I'm still unable to open the hood open. I have tried prying and
> pulling, but all this accomplishes is scrapping the new paint.
>
> I need some serious suggestions here!!! How can I get this hood open?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Zubkoff
> 1965 SPL310-10927D
> San Mateo, CA
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