Hood Not Opening
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I was thinking hole saw, sawz-all etc. myself...
Where's the problem... Good question, seems like the cable is stretched to me, it was working but slowly getting harder to get the latch to pop.
Where's the problem... Good question, seems like the cable is stretched to me, it was working but slowly getting harder to get the latch to pop.
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if you can get it popped open once more, i'd replace the cable right away.
if you cant get it open, then yeah i guess tearing into it with a saw could get the latch open, but you run the risk of destroying the hood also.
go snoop around a junkyard and try your hand at taking one apart without using the latch before you take a saw to yours
if you cant get it open, then yeah i guess tearing into it with a saw could get the latch open, but you run the risk of destroying the hood also.
go snoop around a junkyard and try your hand at taking one apart without using the latch before you take a saw to yours
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Ok... Here's how you get the hood open and you shouldn't have to destroy anything. Permanently destroy anything that is...
Take the grille out, eight screws if it still has all of them. There is a light gauge metal cover in front of the latch and the end of the cable. It's real easy to pry out this guard enough to pull on the latch if the cable wasn't doing that. A person might try spraying some lube in there before busting ones knuckles trying to push/pull on the latch...
My cable appears to be fine, the pull handle was loose on the dash and the underhood latch was very sticky and needed some PB Blaster etc.
So, get your hands off the tools of destruction, for now that is...
Take the grille out, eight screws if it still has all of them. There is a light gauge metal cover in front of the latch and the end of the cable. It's real easy to pry out this guard enough to pull on the latch if the cable wasn't doing that. A person might try spraying some lube in there before busting ones knuckles trying to push/pull on the latch...
My cable appears to be fine, the pull handle was loose on the dash and the underhood latch was very sticky and needed some PB Blaster etc.
So, get your hands off the tools of destruction, for now that is...
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Ok... Here's how you get the hood open and you shouldn't have to destroy anything. Permanently destroy anything that is...
Take the grille out, eight screws if it still has all of them. There is a light gauge metal cover in front of the latch and the end of the cable. It's real easy to pry out this guard enough to pull on the latch if the cable wasn't doing that. A person might try spraying some lube in there before busting ones knuckles trying to push/pull on the latch...
My cable appears to be fine, the pull handle was loose on the dash and the underhood latch was very sticky and needed some PB Blaster etc.
So, get your hands off the tools of destruction, for now that is...
Take the grille out, eight screws if it still has all of them. There is a light gauge metal cover in front of the latch and the end of the cable. It's real easy to pry out this guard enough to pull on the latch if the cable wasn't doing that. A person might try spraying some lube in there before busting ones knuckles trying to push/pull on the latch...
My cable appears to be fine, the pull handle was loose on the dash and the underhood latch was very sticky and needed some PB Blaster etc.
So, get your hands off the tools of destruction, for now that is...
and I refuse to take my hands off my saws and plasma torches!!!!!
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You can trigger the latch with a screwdriver as well, if you can get that metal cover out of the way. Much easier with the grille removed, as was stated earlier. 
You can get a cable or latch assymbly out of any 1980-1986 F-series Pickup or Bronco.
Be aware there is the standard pull handle, and the Locking pull handle differences.
I would also get a seperate latch as well, with new cover. You may destroy the old one, and the cover over the latch is to deter theft.
You can get a cable or latch assymbly out of any 1980-1986 F-series Pickup or Bronco.
Be aware there is the standard pull handle, and the Locking pull handle differences.
I would also get a seperate latch as well, with new cover. You may destroy the old one, and the cover over the latch is to deter theft.
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Yea jmeyer that was my welding class that we used it in also. Seemed like we did more jacking around than anything though haha. Id go weld 4-5 sticks, hated mig welding, than we would go mess with others, or see how much we could bug our teacher.
Man that guy was a jackass of a teacher. The first day of welding class he said, and i quote, "Ill be the first one to admit it, im a horrible welder". We all were just like, what in the hell are you teaching it for than????
Luckly that ******* is becoming a p.e teacher this year.
Man that guy was a jackass of a teacher. The first day of welding class he said, and i quote, "Ill be the first one to admit it, im a horrible welder". We all were just like, what in the hell are you teaching it for than????
Luckly that ******* is becoming a p.e teacher this year.
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my teacher was awesome haha
i didn't care for arc too much, using the torch though, oh boy
then we got into the plasma bit of our class, and he let us free,, bad idea.
somehow half a bench table, and these were all steel tables, was cut into the shape of a, umm, shaft... if you get what I mean....
then our plasma privileges were magically removed
i didn't care for arc too much, using the torch though, oh boy
then we got into the plasma bit of our class, and he let us free,, bad idea.
somehow half a bench table, and these were all steel tables, was cut into the shape of a, umm, shaft... if you get what I mean....
then our plasma privileges were magically removed
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Yea i know that one...
I was using the blow torch one day and wasnt paying attention good enough and a good sized drop of liquid magma dropped into my shoe. Lets just say i was freakin out a bit hahaha.
Also got about 3 people to catch shirts on fire and several pants.
For our welding we practiced running beads on plates of metal. All those plates just stacked up over the year so we ended up taking them and makinging a house out of them haha. Used the plasma to cut doors and windows and what not. Than people started making designs all over em with welds.
I was using the blow torch one day and wasnt paying attention good enough and a good sized drop of liquid magma dropped into my shoe. Lets just say i was freakin out a bit hahaha.
Also got about 3 people to catch shirts on fire and several pants.
For our welding we practiced running beads on plates of metal. All those plates just stacked up over the year so we ended up taking them and makinging a house out of them haha. Used the plasma to cut doors and windows and what not. Than people started making designs all over em with welds.
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as a senior prank, some kids, not me!, decided it would be fun to weld the doors on his truck shut...
they did
so instead of turning them in...
he welded the exhaust on their cars/trucks shut haha
like I said
amazing teacher
they did
so instead of turning them in...
he welded the exhaust on their cars/trucks shut haha
like I said
amazing teacher