'46 Emergency Hood Release

[51woodie]

The hood release cable was hard to pull when releasing the hood. I disconnected it at the latch, pulled the inner wire out, cleaned the rust off, oiled and reinstalled it. At that time, I remembered seeing a post somewhere asking, "how do you open the hood if the pull cable fails". What I came up with, as other probably have, is a loop of mechanics wire connected to the latch arm, that would allow the hood to be release by inserting a 1"x3' dowel (cut off broom handle) up through the hole in the pan in front of the rad, and using the dowel in the loop, pry sideways on the latch loop to release the hood.