Front Hood Lid,stuck sometimes?

jjwebb123 Wolfsburg Wizard

617 posts · joined Aug 2009 · 22 Feb 2010, 9:39 am

#763754

G-day everyone.
Sometimes when i go to open the front hood lid,i have to push my pinky finger all the way in for it to open.Other times i have to pull the open lever(glove box) 3 times before it will open.Is there a way to make this easier?.I played around with the little nut above the mechanism thinking it might help and got the lid stuck for half an hour before finally getting it open.So i changed that back the way it was 😂 .
cheers

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11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 Feb 2010, 2:21 pm

#763788

jjwebb123 wrote:G-day everyone.
Sometimes when i go to open the front hood lid,i have to push my pinky finger all the way in for it to open.
Other times i have to pull the open lever(glove box) 3 times before it will open.
Is there a way to make this easier?.
I played around with the little nut above the mechanism thinking it might help and got the lid stuck for half an hour before finally getting it open.
So i changed that back the way it was 😂 .
cheers

Hi
You will see the cable under the lock going thru a round piece with a grubscrew holding it...

undo the grubscrew and move the wire thru a few extra mms
and tighten the grubscrew...
also grease the whole locking piece on the bonnet with vaseline or petroleum jelly ... and the body locking parts too..

The spring on the bonnet part is supposed to push the bonnet up slightly when you pull the handle in the glovebox..

its a tricky thing, as you have found out...
Your button shouldn't have to be pushed in far at all...
sounds like something is bent etc....

One of the locals cut the cable off from the glovebox..
and put the wire thru a hole down beneath and put a knob on it... so it was unlocked from under the front...

LEE

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jjwebb123 Wolfsburg Wizard

617 posts · joined Aug 2009 · 22 Feb 2010, 3:08 pm

#763792

ok thanks will have to give that a go cheers.

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Adolf Hitler At opening of 1934 Berlin Auto Show

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 Feb 2010, 4:55 pm

#763805

Hi

Make sure that you actually tighten the cable when you adjust it as Lee suggested.

I like to take the cable off the lock and suspend the cable end higher than the lever and then dribble some oil down it, then when it all back together it will operate very smoothly.

Steve

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2,672 posts · joined Jun 2008 · 22 Feb 2010, 8:17 pm

#763862

I replaced a dodgy glovebox lever by fitting a N13 pulsar cable mounted under the left hand side of the dash,nice neat little conversion

jacky_moo Seriously Crusin Dubber

115 posts · joined Feb 2010 · 23 Feb 2010, 7:43 am

#763923

Mine often gets really hard to open.. as in the lever in the glove box has to be pushed with considerable force,
also you have to push the bonnet down before pushing the button or it wont open.. but i cant see any adjustments that can be made to it..

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