The passenger side striker/spring assembly on my hood was catching so I moved it a bit. After checking the fit a few times; It seemed to be right, I shut the hood. Now the striker is stuck, and I can't get the hood open. Can I access the striker somehow??? This is on an '86 Coupe. Any help much appreciated.

 

Have you tried to unlatch the drivers side, to give you some slack, and have someone pull the hood release while you wiggle the pass side hood back and forth?

 

Thanks, yea I tried everything I could think of. I took It for a little drive hopeing that would flex things, and it worked. Opened right up, so I re-adjusted the striker. I don't think you could get to it otherwise...I had visions of a hacksaw and new hood there for a while.

 

I had that problem before. I had a friend open from the passenger side and I would pull from the drivers side. That would do the trick whenever it was stuck.

 

I opened the door inserted a narrow tire iron and used it to gently pry it sideways a little to open my hood! Then I loosened the bolts holding the hood pin and re-aligned the hood pin to the latch. Hope that helps.

AFTER, you open the hood, get two 14" zip ties and hook each side on the latch and thread to the wipers and cut off excess. Then, when the hood sticks, you just pull the zip tie.

Some cases the latch is working and still connected to the cable just needs adjusting. If that is the case with yours, you can drop the driver's knee brace down and reach in with needle nose pliers and pull on the cable for the left side until it pops the latch. That's the way we got another member's hood released. Also when we had the latch release assembly exposed you could see where the cable guide had slid out of the slot and someone else put a piece of wood in there to take up the slack of the cable. Remove the piece of wood and then made the proper adjustment at the cable latch attach point once the hood was opened.

When I adjusted my release cable (the wrong direction no doubt), it wouldn't pop because there was too much slack. So I used a screw driver to take up the slack at the handle, by running the screw driver behind the cables and back out. Then I pulled the screw driver down and pulled the handle at the same time. I got the hood to pop and made the proper adjustment this time. It's been good ever since, much much better. I wouldn't use this method all the time or if your cable already adjusted to the max, unless you are replacing them at the sae time.