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Jeremy5848 · #2 02-27-2007, 06:41 PM

I want to thank Bruce Bonds for the detailed instructions on the R&R of the hood release cable. My '85 wasn't quite the same but the instructions were close enough that I was able to figure out how to do it without breaking anything.

My cable wasn't broken but it was very hard to pull and I was worried that it might break. Having read a lot of horror stories here, I wanted to do something to mine. I decided to remove the cable, lubricate it, and put it back. This sort of maintenance is probably an "every 5 or 10 years" thing and probably is never done on most cars.

After removing the cable following Bruce's instructions, I hung it up and dripped oil into one end. When oil started to come out of the lower end, I knew that there was oil in the whole cable. I allowed the cable to hang and drip overnight.

While putting the cable back, I realized that part of the problem was that some PO had installed it with a "drip loop" in the cable, between the firewall and the pull-lever. The "drip loop" made it harder to pull -- the cable is actually supposed to run straight from the lever to the hole in the firewall (I didn't know this, of course). Between straightening the path and adding oil, my cable is now easy to pull and hopefully won't break at an awkward time.

Jeremy