Tubehead.ed Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Ok, my son came home for the weekend with MY '85 GLSW ( he only thinks it's his, secretly he knows he will have to give it back to me someday in the same nice shape that it's in!!!Haha) . Anyway, one thing that we both have constantly noticed is that the hood release has always been hard to pop. After we popped the hood this morning I left the hood up, pressed the latch with a screwdriver back into the "locked" position and gave a tug . The handle stills needs maxo force to get it to release!?!? I'd like to fix this, my fear is that exercising so much force on the handle/cable is going to break it. I don't think the cable itslef id hanging up, can the tach be adjusted? ) Advice folks? Thanks in advance, and by the way, a big shout out ( THANKS ROB!!!) to Subruise for fixing the oil leak and the bad water pump, she runs sooo nice now! Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykeys Toy Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 There is an adjustment for the release mechanism where the hood makes contact. I think it may be just a little too far down making it difficult to release. I had that issue on a hatch once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmashedGlass Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Had that problem when I bought mine. The cable had stretched. So I took apart the cable and release at the release end, and clamped a couple of round lead fishing sinkers to the cable at the end stop. Reassembled, problem solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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