How Do You Open The Hood With A Broken Hood Release Cable?
When you pull the hood release lever in your vehicle, you are pulling on a cable, just like the brake or shift cables on a bicycle. When the vehicle gets older, and you are under the hood every week to add oil, the cable will eventually wear out and break. So how do you get the hood open without the cable? My experience was with a 1991 Chevrolet S10 Blazer, but the technique I used may be applicable to other vehicles. The only tools required are a set of pliers, a good work light, and some heavy aluminum wire. The aluminum wire is about twice the thickness of spaghetti, and the stuff I used was 8 gage aluminum ground wire from Radio Shack. The advantage of aluminum is that it is soft enough to work like a string, but stiff enough to create a hook. It also is easily workable with your fingers. If you don’t have that, a coat hanger may do. Set the work light down low so that it shines up through the grill at your latch. In the case of my Blazer, all I could see was the metal casing for t
