mmattern1985

My hood cable broke under the hood on my 89 Cherokee how do I open my hood. Already trued going from underneath and I can't even see the release latch from underneath

Zack92MJ

Lol the only way ive personally heard of getting it out is to cut your hood :/

Google it, im sure someone has had the same problem.

Gee oh Dee

Maybe start taking body panels off the front?

montanaman

Here is a very thorough writeup. Read through the entire thing ... he covers how to replace the cable, and several ways to get your hood open when the cable is broken. Lots of good pics too.

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthrea...highlight=hood

In short, you can reach up .... he shows a pic. If your arms aren't skinny enough, you need to take out your headlights.

Hope this helps.

Justin Alkatib

Is there another write up for this issue? all the pics seem to be blocked by photobucket

Motojunky

Pics for that write up are here:

http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/Je...?sort=3&page=1

fb97xj1

I took a look and my computer locked up tighter than a ducks ***. Kept getting a certificate error i couldnt close. One window was open for this forum, and a 2nd opened for that link, then the window for this forum was replaced by that link, giving me two windows for that link. Couldnt close either one. Had to force a shut down and restart. Not good.

Bugout4x4

Do yourself a favor...

https://www.brave.com/

4.3L XJ

This is the way I have had to do it twice. You remove the headlight can and all. If you pull the spring and don't mess with the adjustment screws you will not have to adjust your headlights. Once you have them out, two bolts hold the bar the catch latches on to. One bolt you can see, the other is up underneath. A deep socket will reach it. Pull both bolts on both catch bars and the hood will open

LadyKenai

photobucket, says account needs update cause of 3rd party hosting... ?

i can imagine something heavy on the top of the hood to release some tention while trying to pry that cable from underneath

edit: ah there you go, thats good info 4.3l xj

marc

andrewmp6

Where is the cable broke at ?If its on the latch its self thats a nightmare and some you can do with a long pray bar from under.Or some cars you can remove the driver inter fender and get to the cable but make sure you got a replacement cable once you get it open.

Bugout4x4

I know one thing... Every time I see one of these broken cable threads it makes me want to fab some sort of hidden back up pull for my latch. lol

Gee oh Dee

I gave up on OEM stuff. Hood pins are where it's at.

Kymasabe

I agree. I had a cable break on a Dakota pickup and went with hood pins. Every time i pop the hoid on my 99 XJ, i wonder if this is the day its gonna break. Im not gonna replace cables or latches. I'll do hood pins on the XJ too. I wonder if anyone makes an external hood latch for the XJ similar to old wrangler hood latches?

Kymasabe

Yeah, what he said. ^^