Hood release "HELP"
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From: Lutz (Tampa) Florida
Hood release "HELP"
The hood release handle, on my '67, has become detached from the release cable. Can someone explain to me how a can reattached the cable to the handle and re-open the hood to my car. 
Appreciate any help - Mike
Appreciate any help - Mike
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Re. opening the hood: jack up front of car, block it well, slide underneath driver side and poke a broom handle up from below in front of firewall to reach lever hanging down from driver side hood catch. Push lever back to firewall a little and hood will pop.
As for reattaching handle, some else will help with that.
As for reattaching handle, some else will help with that.
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hood handle
the handle on my 67 has a through hole that also lines up with corresponding hole in cable shaft.. your results may vary...
.un screw the two screws that attach the handle mount under the dash......then attempt to thread a new cotter pin..( insert from the bottom up through the hole..then bend over the pin...1/2 one direction down ...then the other one...I originally put mine in from the top to the bottom ....
but the closed end of the pin was to high to re-secure and get the handle bkt flush with the bottom of the dash....other years of corvettes C-2 have different attachment means..
so 67 hood release is specific to that year
a 65 for instance the cable is threaded to the release handle...If you can re-attach the handle YOU WON'T HAVE TO CRAWL UNDER THE CAR TO TRIP THE RELEASE
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My 66 Handle pulled off a few years ago, this forum offered the great advice to drill and tap my handle, put in a set screw and bingo, it works again. Still using it with the set screw installed no problems since.
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No, you don't have to do both sides, and you can't do both sides because only the driver's side has the lever hanging down. Push that, and both sides open. (this assumes the scenerio OP described, that his handle came off the cable in the car and not that one of the firewall cross cable keepers came loose).
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Well start with looking on the floor for sheared off a cotter pin...
the handle on my 67 has a through hole that also lines up with corresponding hole in cable shaft.. your results may vary...
.un screw the two screws that attach the handle mount under the dash......then attempt to thread a new cotter pin..( insert from the bottom up through the hole..then bend over the pin...1/2 one direction down ...then the other one...I originally put mine in from the top to the bottom ....
but the closed end of the pin was to high to re-secure and get the handle bkt flush with the bottom of the dash....other years of corvettes C-2 have different attachment means..
so 67 hood release is specific to that year a 65 for instance the cable is threaded to the release handle...
If you can re-attach the handle YOU WON'T HAVE TO CRAWL UNDER THE CAR TO TRIP THE RELEASE
Bluzrocker
the handle on my 67 has a through hole that also lines up with corresponding hole in cable shaft.. your results may vary...
.un screw the two screws that attach the handle mount under the dash......then attempt to thread a new cotter pin..( insert from the bottom up through the hole..then bend over the pin...1/2 one direction down ...then the other one...I originally put mine in from the top to the bottom ....
but the closed end of the pin was to high to re-secure and get the handle bkt flush with the bottom of the dash....other years of corvettes C-2 have different attachment means..
so 67 hood release is specific to that year
a 65 for instance the cable is threaded to the release handle...If you can re-attach the handle YOU WON'T HAVE TO CRAWL UNDER THE CAR TO TRIP THE RELEASE
Bluzrocker
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It would seem like the first step would to be the use of vise grip pliers on the wire and pull. I have seen lots of Corvettes in the old days that had this arrangement as a permanent device.
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From: Lutz (Tampa) Florida
Good idea but is the handle attached to a cable inside a sleeve on a 67. Should I be able to use a vice grip and pull the sleeve at the inside of the firewall and release the latch?