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Offline keith

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My hood flew open
« on: June 14, 2006, 08:17:01 PM »
Today I checked my oil before leaving on a short trip.  I got about a mile from home and was going about 40 mph when my hood flew open and blocked the entire view out the windshield.  Luckily no one was around me.  I pull to the side of the rode and was able to latch the hood latch down.  I think the cable just didn't spring back completely when I closed the hood after checking the oil.  Both hood hinges are broken now and the hood is bent a bit.  I was able to order a set of hinges from Hawk for $10 each.  I just drove the Tracker home and parked it because I was leaving town for a few days.  I'll see if I can just bolt on the new hinges and bend the hood a bit.  I've read of this happening to at least one other member and wonder how common it is.
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Offline ddevil

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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 08:26:18 PM »
dang, that sucks.  something to keep in mind though next time i close the hood...
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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2006, 09:46:25 PM »
   :o :o

;D ;D
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Offline da_tub

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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2006, 12:34:08 AM »
lol.. too funny.. but i do feel your pain man. .except i took out the windsheild and dented the roof on my chev truck
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Offline FNG

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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2006, 05:12:40 AM »
That happened to mine,the safety latch got behind the loop and kept the main latch from closeing.Now i have hood pins just for backup. ;D
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Offline fullsink18

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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2006, 05:45:57 AM »
Happened to me too.  I had painted my kick and had disconnect the hood latch.  I forgot to bolt the hood latch backin.  I drove to my girlfriends a good 10 min trip no problems.  I drove over to my buddy's and I must have been doing 60 all of a sudden the hood flew up crack the windshield and stayed there i drove with my head out the window and turned into my buddies got out picked the hood up, broke both hinges. Crushed the hood shattered the windshield.  So yeah I know where you are coming from.  Not too fun of an ordeal.
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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2006, 07:11:49 AM »
I noticed in mine.  the hood latch in the glove compartment sticks open.  Every time i popped the hood i got into the habit of pushing the latch handle back in, otherwise the hood wouldn't lock down.  Lukily I never had it come open while driving.
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Offline 1bigtracker

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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2006, 08:37:49 AM »
« Last Edit: June 15, 2006, 08:40:12 AM by 1bigtracker »
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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2006, 06:02:36 PM »
the hot rods had it first  ;D
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Offline Maroon Monsoon

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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2006, 08:45:28 PM »
I agree with the hood pin idea, possibly even ditching the latch all together. hood pins are cheap and very reliable.. lol

I will keep that in mind, I would be pissed if that happened to me
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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2006, 12:26:30 PM »
I never did trust the hood latch on the Goblin, especially when on the road the hood would shimmy in the wind really bad. I slapped on a pair of hood pins and never looked back. The only downside reared it's ugly head when I burried the Goblin in thick mud half-way up the headlights and had to pop the hood to plug in the winch control cable. This required some bumper scrambling to reach both pins to get the hood open, then I found out the fan was throwing a fountain of water directly in line with the winch solenoid box ::)... LOL!
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Offline Maroon Monsoon

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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2006, 03:45:48 PM »
a friend of mine took his working hood latch off his 4 door kick and put pins on to save weight.. lol funny kid.
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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2006, 10:58:17 AM »
Quote from: Maroon Monsoon on June 16, 2006, 03:45:48 PM
a friend of mine took his working hood latch off his 4 door kick and put pins on to save weight.. lol funny kid.

Interesting logic.  ::)
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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2006, 01:07:04 PM »
A couple of weeks ago I had to take my latch off and lube it because it was sticking. A shot of penetrating oil up the cable helps too.
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Offline Maroon Monsoon

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Re: My hood flew open
« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2006, 03:02:14 PM »
the dude who took his latch off to save weight cut his rear tow hook off to save weight as well.. lol. he also removed his back bumper. when it came time to pull a grand cherokee out he hooked to the rear cross member which he swears is a bumper and tweaked the hell otu of it. that thing looked funny after that. he didn't get the jeep out by the way. he plasma cut the cross member off the next day in metal shop class and soon after welded a piece of rectanguar tubing on to have a bumper/cross member combo even though he thinks it's only a bumper
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