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On 23 May 2002, at 1:46, Greg Merritt wrote: > On my '71, it sometimes seemed that a push down helped, before > pulling up. Yes, this often helps if the hood latch is set a bit too tight. > While pulling the lever down in the glove box on my '71, I could > grab the cable housing under the dash and yank on that, too... that would > help it pop up. Remember that this is a sort of Bowden cable: you pull on the inner wire while pushing on the outer sleeve. If you pull on both, the net force on the latch can be zero. (Well, in this case, not really, but pulling on the sleeve IS counterproductive.) - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/