Help: Hood won't open.
 

So i sold my green booger machine and got another eg
93 civic HB nothing special.
Sometimes when you try to close it it sticks to "on/open" so you have to click the cable up.

Anyways,
Now as im going to go and lower my car, it decides that its on its reg and doesnt want to open up.

So ive tried a few things...
**Tightening the cable from the bracket/leaver.

**Getting someone to push down on the hood or push HARD on the hood while i pull the leaver.
( the hood also has a bunche of dents in the spot where it looks like a previous owner would have hit the hood trying to open it. )

** Going under the drivers side fender to play around with the cable aswell.

Anyone else run into anything like this?

p.s. im picking up my new hood thursday so if this one needs to be damaged thats fine.

Sorry!

try using some KY

ahahha lube er' up eh... hmmm

have one person pull the release, and the other pry + lift?

vsvs and everyone else that posted, that's not very helpful at all.

lazybum, apply the KY to the hinge manifold joint flanges.

is the cable even connected to the latch?

you bought another 93 eg hb? isn't that exactly what you already had?

The other one was auto but thats not the issue here.

Try pushing down on the hood while one person pulls the latch and make sure the latch is still fastened to the release mechanism under the hood.

Berz out.

tried that. thank you though. :)

AHAHA yes it is :P
Pulled the cable out of the gromet at the fender part though just now by pulling too hard. its all still conected.
i have it on my hoist now and ill see if we can reach up there.

lmao
yes

i had a 92.. but nothing different ...except that its uh red, and its standard... ahah
( i wanted a project car , but nothing automatic to have to convert to standard.. so yeh this is my project )

Thanks Berz! Ive already done that though :(
Weve tried using a damn crowbar cause i dont even care ahahah , not budging .. just lifing the car up.

hey thanks for the help guys!
I went from underneith it, and had to get a guy to pry it with a prybar again while i pulled on the cable.
It slipped out of its casing apparently i couldnt see exactly.
but now its just how to fix the latch... cause it is back to not wanted to close again.

again ,thanks!!

black?

Yes its black.
sitting in poco right now.
Why?

just seeing if this ones going to look better than your old one lol

lol.. that car was just a play around car..
lol
Just wanted it to look half decent for an auto.. the body was horrible on that thing.

Were you the chotch that had the integra :P lmao

yeah my black integra was automatic as well but i've moved onto something else just as you have.

you shouldn't be laughing, you're the dorkk with the civic lol

huhhhhh? lol
So you were or werent the dude in the silver integra that day? lmfao.

Black integra?hmmmmm

LOVE MUH CIVIC'S :D <3 lol

throw a new cable and latch into it!

problem solved

so you've tried yanking the cable from inside the fender? if that doesn't work, it's the hood release bearings.

silver integra? what'd he do?

cause it was not i.

Problem solved!
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