[Fot] hood release for TR6 ???

[J.C. Hassall]

At 02:38 PM 7/3/2009, Bobby Whitehead wrote:
>I bought this real nice race car cable release from 
>Summitt.....   hooked it all up really nice....  checked all the 
>operations... then shut the hood...
>
>HOOD WILL NOT RELEASE, PLUS MY BATTERY IS DISCONNECTED.... I CAN'T 
>DRIVE IT, LOST SLEEP OVER THE DELIMA LAST NIGHT...
>
>Is there any access that anyone knows of easy???   I thought about 
>pulling the headlight buckest out and removing the hood latches from 
>the body, lift the hood from the front and then see if I can 
>reach  the lever...

Bobby, I loosened the hinge bolts at the body and was able to raise 
the bonnet leading edge just high enough to reach in with a broom 
handle and trip the release.  Then I bought the emergency release 
hicky from Macy's Garage.  And of course have never had to use it.

jim



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>Bobby Whitehead
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J.C. Hassall
Blacksburg VA
'63 TR4 in autox preparation
98.9% finished, 90% to go