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Hi, I’m Mike from 1A Auto. We’ve been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
Replace the hood hinge. Remove the 10 millimeter bolts that are holding it. There's one on this side and two on this side. I'm going to start with the single one over here, loosening it with a 10 millimeter socket. I'm going to loosen this one. Loosen the bottom one. I'm going to switch to a ratcheting wrench to make it a little bit easier. Once I get this one loose, pull it out with my fingers and put it aside.
Work on this one here. Rather than struggle to try to get to these bolts, I'm going to pop these clips out with a flat bladed screwdriver. There's a bunch of push clips all around here, we can take this trim right off then we'll have access to hood hinge. Much more space without this in here. Get my fingers in here, remove this one. Lift the latch out.
To unclip it from the hood release cable so I can actually push this cable out, around and I can unclip it from here. I'm just going to push it in with my thumb. Get these bolts out of the way. Put that cable there. The hood latch is removed.
Here's the old hood latch from our vehicle and the new hood latch from 1AAuto.com. It’s similar in design with the same bolt holes. There's these square holes so that the hood latch can be adjusted. Same mounting point for the hood release cable as the original. This should fit in the truck and work great for you.
I reattached the hood release cable. Go through here, and actually what I'm going to do is loop it over here first, pull it back, and push it through. I can put it back on the radiator support. You can see where the original one was. Some marks here so in order to get it close to adjustment, so I'm going to put it where the original one was for now. If we need to adjust it afterwards, you can leave these bolts loose and move it side to side and up and down to adjust as necessary.
But for now, I'm going to line it up where the original one was. Reinstall the bolts. Start tightening these, get it to line up close to the original one. I'm just going to tighten this til I feel it get tight, and then I'm going to stop. Bring the final bolt in. It wants to go by hand.
Our hood latch is replaced. It did come pre-greased but now's not a bad time to add a little more lubricant to it. Looks like the adjustment is good so we're going to leave that as is. Make sure the release works. The hood latch is replaced. Final step is just reinstalling the plastic cover, goes over the grille. Just push all the clips back into place. Push them down and lock them. If the center part has come out, that's okay, we'll reinstall it.
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Okay, friends, so one of the first things we need to do to start this hood latch repair is we're going to come right here to these three 10-millimeter headed bolts. You'll see two on the driver side and one over on the passenger side. Remove all three. There we are. Do the same to the rest. And if you don't feel like using a wrench, use a 10-millimeter socket with an extension.
Come right through the grille, go ahead and remove it. Okay. There it is. Hold onto this because there's nothing else holding it on. The next thing we need to do is get the release cable off of here. If you squeeze those two ears, you should be able to get it off. Okay. Just draw that out. Bring it down through the slot. Then take this. Bring it right up and out of there.
There it is, friends. Now, it's time to get our nice new latch in there. We're going to install it in the reverse process. So, just take that cable, put it around the backside there, pull it through. Now, I'm gonna go ahead and give it a tug. And I'm going to slide those ears through. Make sure they lock in completely.
Bring this down. Start in all your screws before you tighten any of them down. Okay. Those are close enough. This can still move around. So, next, we need to take a look at our old latch. If you look, you should be able to see some circles where the old washers for the bolts used to be. You're going to want those markings to be in approximately the same place on the new latch.
That's going to be a great starting point. If I was to tighten this up in a completely up position where my old one was in the completely down position, more than likely my hood's not going to be aligned properly and it might not even open. So, I'll just start it where the old one was, and we'll go from there. All right. Let's give it a quick test. Give it a nice tug. Make sure it doesn't move around too much up or down. That feels good. Our next test is to go pop the hood and hopefully, it breaks free and opens up.
So, that's what we were looking for right there. We wanted to make sure that this latch is going to be working properly right from the get-go. If for some reason the hood came down but it didn't latch in, you need to fix your adjustment. Maybe the hood came down and it did latch in, but you noticed you had to push down on the hood to get it to completely unlatch, once again, you need to complete your adjustment. Once you get it just right, we're going to continue on by snugging these up completely.
Okay. Close the hood, take it for a road test.
