body and interior Hood Lock (I Don't Understand It)

[Robert Kyle]

On 8/29/2013 at 2:22 PM, GreenSwede said:

I was wrong. The roller goes down when locked. Is your ramp installed the right way? Leaning upwards to the back of the car? 

 

Pics, in order of appearance - open, closed and ramp. Left side.

 

 

Top picture...is the FRONT of the car on the LEFT?

 

Also, which way does the cable go on the pulley?  Does it go from FRONT to REAR (clockwise if looking at it from the driver's/left side)?

[Henning]

Yo. Correct.

The roller goes down when locked- any year, any style, any gadget.

The difference is about the lever overneath the kick panel. Roundies -AFAIcan tell- have a drag-to-lock-lever. Squaries have a push-to-lock-lever, but I don't know if there are certain overlaps between the eras.

h

 

[jimk]

47 minutes ago, Henning said:

Roundies -AFAIcan tell- have a drag-to-lock-lever

My 1 owner has a push to lock lever.

[RichenFamous]

My ‘69 is push to lock. It works, so I don’t even care if it is backwards!

[tme]

15 hours ago, Robert Kyle said:

Also, which way does the cable go on the pulley?  Does it go from FRONT to REAR (clockwise if looking at it from the driver's/left side)?

Correct.

[otisdog]

13 hours ago, Henning said:

 

The difference is about the lever overneath the kick panel. 

We have just witnessed the rare birth of a word!

[NYNick]

1 hour ago, otisdog said:

We have just witnessed the rare birth of a word!

overneath. Something that is above something else in which one is not able to see it due to the fact that it is covered by the object that is underneath it but it is above our sight.Jul 21, 2019

[Conserv]

2 hours ago, otisdog said:

We have just witnessed the rare birth of a word!

Note: Hen’s English is still 50 times better than my German.

 

Just saying... ?

 

Regards,

 

Steve

 

[Shad]

On 8/29/2013 at 12:36 PM, mlytle said:

"stare at it for a while. it will become apparent."

This is my new favorite phrase. Going to have to get this on all my work shirts. Thank you. :)

[Henning]

Push-to-lock, locked:

(To give the manual choke wire a new purpose.)

Drag-to-locks have a different design.

hen

 

[M3M3]

8 hours ago, Shad said:

This is my new favorite phrase. Going to have to get this on all my work shirts. Thank you.

the older i get, the longer i have to stare before anything becomes apparent.

 

i stared at a medium case diff from e30m3 yesterday for a good hour before it became apparent that i couldn't press a new bushing into the cover without taking the cover off. ?

 

sometimes a good IPA helps.  or not.....?

[dino_rox]

has this been solved ? 

i am also struggling with the same issue , cannot get the ends of my hood my to latch , the mechanism moves in the other direction while the center hook latches correctly  , i a little confused how to get this fixed .

any tips ?

[visionaut]

On 2/21/2024 at 1:11 AM, dino_rox said:

has this been solved ? 

i am also struggling with the same issue , cannot get the ends of my hood my to latch , the mechanism moves in the other direction while the center hook latches correctly  , i a little confused how to get this fixed .

any tips ?

With the hood open ( cable slackened) - the outboard ends with the rollers should be facing forward and sit approximately horizontal. The center catch should have its point facing up and tilted very slightly forward.

 

When you rotate the lever inside the car, it tightens the cable - the outboard ends with the rollers pointed forward rotate downwards (engaging the angle plates on the outer rear hood) , and the center catch also rotates up and forward to grab the center hood.

 

My 76er is a ‘push down & forward’ to lock set-up, since that’s the lever orientation RealOEM shows in their illustration (for all models BTW).

 

 

Edited February 22 by visionaut

[dino_rox]

2 minutes ago, visionaut said:

With the hood open ( cable slackened) - the outboard ends with the rollers should be facing forward and sit approximately horizontal. The center catch should have its point facing up and tilted very slightly forward.

 

When you rotate the lever inside the car, it tightens the cable - the outboard ends with the rollers pointed forward rotate downwards (engaging the angle plates on the outer rear hood) , and the center catch also rotates up and forward to grab the center hood.

 

My 76er is a ‘push down & forward’ to lock set-up, since that’s the lever orientation RealOEM shows in their illustration (for all models BTW).

 

 

so the rollers on the end dont go up the ramp of the bracket ? 

 

[visionaut]

Rollers press down on the ramps. They start horizontal and rotate forward & down.