"Tegger®" <teggeratistopdotcom@changetheobvious.invalid> wrote
> "Caroline" <caroline10027remove@earthlink.net> spake
> > I noticed that the entire front latch assembly may be moved as much as
> > around 1/2 inch in direction or the other. I presume this is to allow
> > more precise hood-release-cable tensioning as needed.
>
>
> It's to allow for hood/latch alignment. The loop on the hood isn't always
> perfectly straight.

Oh hell... the above makes eminent sense. :-)

Strike all my nonsense above.

> > My only concern is that the half hitch may put undue stress on the
> > cable and some time cause a cable break. Getting into the hood release
> > mechanism looks like a fairly unpleasant chore at that point.
>
>
> The worst part will be the bumper and the inner fender liner. The bumper
> will come off in fifteen minutes. It's a good idea to buy new signal light
> gaskets, as the old ones will leak like crazy if you try to reinstall them.
> Also you need to clean all the old gasket off the lenses.
>
> The inner fender liner's fixing screws fill up with muck. They take a
> Phillips screwdriver, but you need to carefully clean out the crosses with
> a dentist's pick or scriber so the screwdriver will engage properly.
> Sometimes the screws simply spin around in the inserts instead of
> unscrewing, and you need to carefully pry slightly upwards between the
> screw and the insert so the threads can catch.
>
> Once you have those two off, the rest is a piece of cake.

Excellent. I'll leave the hood release cable half-hitch in place then and keep
coveralls and a coupla screwdrivers in the trunk, 'case the thing breaks. :-)

I saw the cold weather inquries on the subject of car etc. cables breaking.

For the database: The other week within twenty minutes I managed to snap a
friend's parking brake release cable (happily, an easy part to find and replace)
and then was in the garage when the garage door cable snapped (needed a pro to
fix, but it had happened before, so I exempted myself as the cause). Surely the
sub-freezing temperatures where I was contributed to this coincidence of steel
cables breaking.