Anybody out there know just how the heck you can get your hood up when the release cable just doesn't seem to want to work??? They can't get me into the dealership for about a week and that's just not gonna cut it. Anybody ever had experience with this problem on a D2?

Steve Abercrombie

Pendy is an advocate of the 'gas axe'

Dielucas favors a pry bar

While I take the preventive aproach of 'If you love it, lube it'
:flipoff2:

-Jeff


Nothing constructive to add, but when in doubt, try a long scewdriver through the grill to slide the catch from underneath.

The actual latch part can be adjusted. Just tinker with it, loosen the two main bolts that hold it on and that will make it easier to unlatch. Of course you've got to figure it out since different stuff happens to each truck.

Max T.

hood pins

Just remove the hood completely. The engine will run a lot cooler and people will think you're a master mechanic out for a test drive :cool2:

SC

Just remove the hood completely. The engine will run a lot cooler and people will think you're a master mechanic out for a test drive :cool2:

SC
..or a Hillbilly mechanic

I second the hood pins. When my latch broke (hood kept popping open) and adjustments wouldn't fix it, I went to the local ricer hot rod shop and got a set for 25 dollars vs. over a hundred to replace the latch.

Yeah, once I get this thing open, I'm definately going with hood pins. I'm just having trouble getting the damn thing open!

Abercrombie

Stout, no rattle hood pins
Mid page: http://www.wildhorses4x4.com/16.asp

Dielucas favors a pry bar


My wife got tired of the beat up lip around the hood, so I installed a set of tie-downs, ala' Jeep.

Yeah - I got the same ones Old Scout has posted...got them for 30$ from PORC on the PBB...cool stuff...no rattle is true

http://www.pangeaexpeditions.com/images/productimages/PinClosed.jpg

These are from Pangea Expeditions $25...bargain.

On my RRC I'm going with the Jeep style like here
http://www.landroverclub.lu/pictures/activities/billing_2002/Disco_CT_27.jpg
.... just because the Pangea style pins may not be tall enough

http://www.pangeaexpeditions.com/images/productimages/PinClosed.jpg

These are from Pangea Expeditions $25...bargain.

On my RRC I'm going with the Jeep style like here
http://www.landroverclub.lu/pictures/activities/billing_2002/Disco_CT_27.jpg
.... just because the Pangea style pins may not be tall enough

That looks like the ones I have on the Zuk, in aluminum though. The bolts are at least 4", and could easily be extended.

Thanks for all the info, I picked up some pins today from a race shop...the pin itself will need to be longer, but I can easily fix that.

Abercrombie

all you need now is a fart tube, a ricer wing and some nos stickers

Being from Texas I guess you'd know about Fart tubes eh? :D

Being from Texas I guess you'd know about Fart tubes eh? :D
i was talking about the oversize exaust tips the dimwits put on their hondas, not the fart tubes you were refering too.we don't do that san fransico back door mudding here in texas :barf: unlike those sick freaks up in maine :flipoff2:

bwaahahahahahah

For the defender bonnet release cable, how does one 'slacken clamping bolt securing bonnet release cable'? (per RAVE)

I'm thinking that I should be able to adjust my bonnet release (the cable has stretched), but there isn't a lot of room to see what's going on.

For the defender bonnet release cable, how does one 'slacken clamping bolt securing bonnet release cable'? (per RAVE)

I'm thinking that I should be able to adjust my bonnet release (the cable has stretched), but there isn't a lot of room to see what's going on.

PT posting under Shopboy's signin

There is a bolt that the cable runs through under the grill surround. You use a wrench to slacken (loosen) the bolt.

Peace,
PT

(padding Shopboy's post count)

Pendy is an advocate of the 'gas axe'

Dielucas favors a pry bar

While I take the preventive aproach of 'If you love it, lube it'
:flipoff2:

-Jeff


Nothing constructive to add, but when in doubt, try a long scewdriver through the grill to slide the catch from underneath.

don't think that is much help...muhc is enclosed in the metal shroud...

some people(names with-held for now) prefer a sawzall for amy problematic items on their disco.......so I have an easy to reach through open in my grill right in front of the latch assy!

oh! and a trick I find that works sometimes is to have someone pull on the latch while you lift up the front of bonnet! and as I usually have no-one handy to help, use a bungie to hold bonnet release pullled all the way while I pound on and jiggle the bonnet until it finally opens...



Paul(no...I wasn't that person...but I do have a makita recipro-saw in the back next to the inverter...just in case! ....next to the big fawkin' hammer! maybe if only to scare the poor beast into releasing the latch?)

If your hood is stuck closed and you just can't pull the release far enough to disengage the latch, you can always undo the two bolts that hold the handle to the firewall. You will then be able to pull the cable much further back and open the hood.

Then install the hood pins.

oh! and a trick I find that works sometimes is to have someone pull on the latch while you lift up the front of bonnet! and as I usually have no-one handy to help, use a bungie to hold bonnet release pullled all the way while I pound on and jiggle the bonnet until it finally opens...
I'm in this mode now. When I'm on the trail (and a lot of times just going down the road) I just leave the hood open on the secondary latch for easy access. I also find the cable a good measure of how how my engine is. The hotter the engine, the harder it is to release the hood.

If your hood is stuck closed and you just can't pull the release far enough to disengage the latch, you can always undo the two bolts that hold the handle to the firewall. You will then be able to pull the cable much further back and open the hood.

Then install the hood pins.


yeah...or since I have that big ol' hole in the grill I may as well adhust the whole thing........or better yet install teh fawking new cable that is sitting there!

I want to install hood-pins....used to use them on many previoous cars.....but need a lock as well as I park on the street right now! :eek: I had the battery stolen(brand-new three days) from y series twice in San Jose....I din't think Fresno is any safer.......after all they smash-n-grab'ed Elisa's rangie and took toe laptop and everything else on back-seat adn footwell....no alarm as the door wasn't opened! :( six months ago whe I had the disco in back and she was on the street!!!! I keep it all dirty and full of shit..looking worthless on the street...so far so good, but with hood-pins, I'm sure someone would do something..I don't trust people anymore!!!
I need something locking....

Paul

hood pins here as well...them rattle free ones...from PORC on the board...(or was it PIG?)...