The car has not ran for probably three years....and now I can't seem to open the hood. When popping it from inside the lever does not have alot of resistance and no popping sound is heard. I have tried pushing on the hood, fiddling with the latch with a small screwdriver(nearly impossible), going back and forth from the inside lever to the front of the hood several times.

Any ideas? Anyone else had similiar problems? Is there a way to look at the latch from underneath?

In my frustration I have smoked a pack of cigarettes, thrown tools through the wall, burned things on my fire, and raised enough ruckis to piss the neighbors off. Now I have come to my last resort and am consoling with my brethren at 2gnt. FYI, I am not a BANME!...Have built motors before and am a machinist by profession.

Have someone pull the lever inside to release the hood and you lightly beat the end of the end where it latches with your hand. It should pop.

+1 on that. Also you can try to pull the cable under the dash with pliers or small vice grips. It might give you a longer pull than what the lever is allowing. Squirt some lube under the hood too with a nozzle spray if you can.

Guinness, have you check your old "Lost Login ID" post? Ive replied to you in it.

-Christopher

Yea I will check it now...

I got the hood open with one of my buddy's help. While he was pulling the lever inside I pushed and pulled and findly unhooked it after spraying some WD-40 in there.

Weird. 2g's usually have the opposite problem, with the hood stuck open

/sarcasm off

Originally posted by ez
2g's usually have the opposite problem, with the hood stuck open

I lolerskated after that. had to sig it.