rev up your engines, today I'm gonna show you how to fix a very annoying problem
that happens all the time, you can't get under your hood cuz the hood latch is
broken, well the first thing I do is put on gloves, because when you deal with
these cable systems, a lot of times they get frayed, there's piece of frayed cable
lying around, you can easily cut yourself, so
protect your hands first, but when you're pull on the lever it doesn't open,
you know you can't get in without fixing something, then remove the plastic stuff
on the side, take out the bolts on the top and the bolt on the bottom, we'll just
remove both of these, then the whole thing comes off and you can see the cable
right here, and you can twist the cable with your hand and it comes right out of
the hole, and now you can pull on this hmm but it still won't open, and if that
didn't work and in this case it didn't we'll get a pair of vise grip pliers and
stick that on the end of the cable, get the cable out, snap it on nice and tight,
and then pull like mad, hmm well that didn't work so now we need another
person, one person to pull on the cable and another one to beat on the hood, so
here we go pull as hard as you can well we tried a lot of times that'll
work, but it won't open, I'm assuming the cable is completely broken off of the latch,
so now we got to get to the latch, either that or give up, now when we look inside,
we can see that there's a cover over the latch, that little round dot is one of
those plastic clips we got to pry them off, so you get a giant screwdriver and
stick it in there here we go we'll wedge it in and try to
snap it off, well that didn't work so we'll get a hammer and give it a few
whacks, here we go it worked, there's the cover
and there it is you can see the cable and you can see the latch which we're
gonna force open, get your screwdriver again and will force it behind the latch, there
it is behind the latch and look at that we got inside, now that shows that the
latch itself is okay, but the cable assembly that feeds it,
it's broken inside somewhere so we have to replace that, now I'll take off the front
of this plastic cover so you can see the latch better, unbolt it and we'll just pull
it off, we don't have to pull the whole
thing off just enough to get room to unbolt the latch assembly
then when we finish there is the latch, and if you're confused to see how to
open it when I was filming, this is the part that we grabbed with the
screwdriver and pull it out, when you pull this part out it unlatches it, then the
cable itself is easy to get out, you just pinch it a little, comes out of the hole
then there's a nub and we squeeze it and it comes out, just pinch the inside
and it comes right off, there's the cable, and once we're connected
it from under the hood, we can just pull it out from the inside, and
there's the whole stinkin broken cable assembly, and then we get the new cable
assembly, and fish it back from the inside under the hood, and here's a trick
if it's hard to get it through the hole, I'm using this long dowel rod and some
Gorilla Tape, you stick it in from under the hood through the hole, then you can
tape the end of the cable to this and pull it through, as you can see I fished the
rod through the hole here that goes into the firewall into the vehicle, then
go inside the vehicle and tape the end of the cable to that little rod, then
when you pull the rod out, there's the cable, then the cable is pretty easy, you
just flip the latch up, the cable slips in here, then you stick the end on and
snap it in place like that, then you get the latch and remember one side had two
and one side had one so it goes this way, put it
in place, and put two three bolts in, make sure you get them nice and tight, then
snap the plastic cover back on, and put the two bolts in, put it on so it doesn't
slip off, remember to do both sides, then get the handle and bolt it on the inside,
and snap the plastic cover back on, and here comes the moment of truth, we'll close
the hood and see if it opens, we'll go here
and pull on it, made a noise, and voila it works now, so the next time your hood
opener won't work and you can't get under the hood of your vehicle, don't get
mad fix it yourself, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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