My guess is part of the cable housing melted. If any part of the housing
gets soft it will collapse and the cable will not operate,
Drive Safe,
Joe
>Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:23:13 -0500
>From: Richard A Pyburn <rap777@juno.com>
>Subject: Re: DML: Hood release WAS: Engine Oil Leak
>
>I still remember it all very well. The release moved and nothing
>happened. It was as free as it could be, but the hood would not release.
>I didn't look at the cable to see if it was steel. I assumed (yeah, I
>know, ass / u / me) it was some type of plastic since it malfunctioned
>when I needed it most.
> Richard in SA
>
>On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:16:41 -0500 Robert Trottmann
><rotrottmann@davidson.edu> writes:
>>Or to simply remove the plastic casing from 1/2 of an inch away from
>>the
>>firewall, back to the firewall, because this is where the melted
>>plastic
>>probably caused the cable not to move, sticking to the cable, and
>>blocking it
>>at the hole where it entered the firewall. I don't know if you
>>remember, but
>>when you pulled the release, did it move, and not release, or was it
>>solid.
>>If it moved, yet still didn't release, that would be strange.
>>Later,
>>Robert
>>
Joe Dille
Telford PA USA
(joe@dille.montgomery.pa.us)
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