From:Tim Roller >starwolf@bewellnet.com
>The plastic release housing melted and prevented the cable from
operating,but there is a way to solve this problem,but it may not look as
good as the factory cable pull. Just go to the auto store and pickup the
truck model manual choke pull cable kit and install it in place of the
factory cable. It's a steel cable wrapped in a steel spring sleeving that
has some bending capabilities. If you want to you may even probably can make
a loop at the end that goes in the interior side and attach it onto the hood
handle, unless the handle has the molded type cable cover that's all one
unit--I haven't checked mine so I'm unsure. Some places now have a do-it
yourself repair aisle that have replacemant hood handles and cables--you
might try that option also.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Dille <joe@dille.montgomery.pa.us>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 2:08 PM
Subject: DML: Hood release
>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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