Anyone got good way to unlatch hood with cable broke? My 1980 Brat hood cable either came lose or broke.Can't seem to reach mechinism with out hurting grill.Any tricks?

Take the grill out?

Take the grill out?

 

I don't think you can get at all the screws on a first gen with the hood shut, not for sure on that though.

This happened to me with my 1st Brat. I had to take both the drivers side headlights out and reach in there and unlatch the hood by hand. Just had to pull where the cable used to be. Kind of a lot of trouble but I did not see any other way. Maybe somebody else has a better way of doing this. Oh yeah I forgot to mention that after I got the hood open I installed a new hood cable to fix the problem.

I used a bass guitar string on mine when that happen. I was able to go thru the grill and thru the latch and then out of the grill again. Tied the string together and yanked on it to pop it loose. Keep the string in there as my pop open mechanism till I replaced the cable. Just a thought if you play guitar or no someone who does. Good luck.

I got mine with a long screwdriver.was able to move the latch and pop it open.

 

Then I rigged up a wire similar to the bass string method.For now I open my hood from in front og the grill where my homemade cable comes out of the grill.

 

When you get it open you should be able to find a new cable.I just got two on eBay recently.

bailing wire

 

-mike