there has been alot of car theft lately and i really need to get my hood locked down...what are my options excluding locking hood pins. can i rig up some type of cable latch that pulls from inside the cab? any ideas please.
Sicarius428 said:A cable won't stop anybody. What I do is disconnect the coil wire and use a lock and chain. It is ugly and a pain in the butt but its definately gonna work. In addition I also have one of those autolocks that attaches to either the break or clutch pedal.
Kevin
FasterThenU72 said:Also my neighbor gave me this little keycard looking deal that you hook up to like 6 different places, what it does is interuppt the circuit by splicing the wire into two different leads, and the only way to complete the circuit is to have this little key on your keychain and put it in the slot....:
Hey, that's me you're talkin' about. We did do a cable release hood latch but it's from a '70s Ford F series truck. You are correct that I originally recalled it being from a big Oldsmobile, but when I broke the handle on it recently and had to replace it, I realized that it was actually the Ford part. We'd pulled so many different ones that I apparently simply got mixed up.MitchGT said:I think DarkBuddha has something for a cable operated hood latch. It was from some gm car, but at least it will keep engine parts in your posession.
FasterThenU72 said:ok, this is what i did and or what i am in the process of doing....from front to back, the hood; a friend of mine told me about this little deal that basically acts as a hoodlatch and you have to use a little key inside the car to get the hood open, they dont make them anymore but i called damn near everywhere and found one for like 60 bucks at some stereo alarm shop...so you could too, trust me they work.
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