Last night I tried popping my hood open, with no luck.  I figured I'd have to get it up in the air today and try prying the latch as mentioned in many other threads.  But, somehow it did open, luckily.   So while removing and cleaning the hood latch, checking the cable, I decided to add an emergency cable, just in case the original fails.

First I bought a $2 hook and wire leader from Walmart, 60 lb test, about 34" long, and removed hook and beads.

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Drilled an 1/8" hole in the top of the swiveling cable end connector, on the firewall side so it won't bind up with real cable.  Fed the small cable loop up through the hole, then big loop through small loop.

Attached factory cable and reinstalled latch.  Fed new cable to throttle linkage bracket, down the inside of bracket, around brake lines so it wouldn't wedge into something, over to speedometer hole, and inside.

Used small binder clip to clamp end of cable to clutch/brake pedal frame.  Looks like I'm missing the speedo hole grommet.

Anyway, it works great.  Hopefully I'll never have to use it, but it's there if the occasion arises.

 

Edited July 23, 20224 yr by KenFirch

i like it!