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Not sure what your issue is. Could you be a bit more specific? like, is the release still there? If it is, does it move? Is the return spring jammed? Will it release to the safety catch, then no more?
Any additional information would be helpful.
The hood will not release at all. The latch is still there as well as the spring. The hood was working like normal and I closed it a couple of months ago and not it wont budge.
I am wondering if you might of lost a bottom hood hinge arm bolt on either side. If so it makes it very hard to open. Can you lift up on one rear corner or the other to see if one of the lower hinge arms has come loose from the hood and has snapped down towards the cowl? If so, you could take a big screw driver and wrestle the hinge arm back up, it's not easy but eventually you'll get it to snap back up towards the hood, and then you should be able to open the hood, prop it up with a proper support rod, and then look into what you may need to thread another hood bolt into the hood. May be that the welded nut inside the hood has broken off, then you may need to order a kit from Mid-50 to repair it. If you still have the nut there, clean it out with a tap, and then line up your hood arm with the hood nut hole and see if you can thread in another hood hinge bolt with the spring washer. You don't have to go real tight on those bolts. Snug them up, then use safety wire to tie the heads together.
The hood dowel can get jammed if the latch or the front sheet metal have moved out of alignment. I had to take the bolts out of the latch assembly on my '52 front end. Luckily they were all new so the came out easily. Still had a few cuts and bruises on my hands trying to get in there.
