Locking Hood
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Locking Hood
OK someone messed with my truck...I don't know when it was or why they did it but they switched my sparkplug wires around. Lucky no damage but took me a bit to figure out what was wrong. What I was wondering was how do I go about locking my hood ...I own a 75 F-250 ..there isn't an inside latch pull on it.
I looked at the handle under the hood and thought maybe I could put some kind of plate steel down behind it and put a padlock on it ...any sugestions? pictures are worth a million
I looked at the handle under the hood and thought maybe I could put some kind of plate steel down behind it and put a padlock on it ...any sugestions? pictures are worth a million
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I got a hood latch from a mid '80s van and used a pull cable from a '83 F150. They both bolted right in, just had to drill a hole for the cable to go through the firewall. The van latch is identical to the optional '78-79 factory pickup latch. It works great.
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They offered the factory option on trucks and broncos for 78+79.The latches and keyed handles are the same,but the vans cables are shorter than the trucks and broncos.Good Luck
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Locking hood latches that fit our trucks (with inside the cab releases) have often been offered on eBay also... Good luck!
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I had that same problem with my 78. I drilled a 1/4" hole through the top of the handle and through the supposting braket for the latch and put a pad lock on it. You have a 75 grill tho, the 78 grill has big square openings so it makes it easy to stick a pad lock in there and lock/unlock it.
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Thanks for the info I am going to go tomorrow to check out the local junk yard ...wish me luck. If I can't find one there I am thinking that the padlock will work. I was looking at it and it looks like it will work with a small padlock
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Heres a cheap one. My '79 F-100 came from New Jersey where they steal batterys.A 1/4inch chain was bolted to the bottom of the hood and hung down so that it could be locked to the bumper brackets. It was sort of a pain in the butt when the hood was open but the previous owner said that his battery never left again.
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