so yesterday I go to buy my jeep from the previous owner, and he was doing some final cleanup and whatever, and he went to open the hood and the cable broke right at the handle! luckily he was able to put a vice grip on it so it can still be opened if need be

I don't want to get a replacement from a dealer, you know they mark stuff up like crazy
where's the best place to get a replacement?

 

Crown and we have a supplier in the Vendors section Gerr Offroad. E-mail him and you will get a quote pretty fast so you can compare it to the stealership.

 

Should also be able to get one at your local AutoZone, Advanced Auto and the like...I had to replace mine and went to Advanced auto...

You got lucky mine broke where it connects to the front of the hood and boy what that a major issue..

 

oh I bet!
how did you manage to get it open?

 

Long arms and about an hr or so of struggling and cut fingers and managed to reach up an manually release it at the front where the cable connects at the hood release mechanism.

 

Seen this happen to a few. Hood pins are another option, all though not the best from a security stand point

 

I considered hood pins but I dunno if I want to..If my hood cable ever breaks again I am going to put in hood pins and just lock the cables or something..

 

I can't release mine that way b/c my arms are toooo short. I had to get a buddy to cut the crap outa his hands to do it for me. I have been thinking about making a hood release tool.

 

If you come up with one let me know cause man one sure would have been handy..

 

If I do I am calling that invertor hotline thingie on TV with the caveman and the animal skull wheelbarrow. Unless you want to help me market it OKC?

 

Mine broke at the hood latch. This is how I opened my hood.

There are two bolts that attach each of the hood strikers to the radiator core support in the body. If you remove these two bolts on each of the strikers, the hood can then be opened with the strikers still attached to the latch mechanisms.

The two bolts are accessed BEHIND the headlight. One must remove the headlight trim, headlight bulb, and headlight bulb mounting bracket, commonly called the headlight "bucket". Once all of this is out of the way, then there is one bolt that faces forward on the front side of the core support and a second bolt that faces downward (and is reached through an opening in the core support bracket, as it's on the INSIDE of the bracket.

 

thankfully I won't have to resort to any of that, since my cable broke right at the handle . . . I'll just have to feed the cable up through the firewall and attach it

 

If it broke at the handle you can often clamp onto it with vicegrips to open the hood.

 

Mine was to frozen "rust" that I thought I was going to break the plastic pull handle in side. finellynbit poped open. Went over all linkage and the cable with "Kroil" the best ! let it sit kept working it closed hood and tryed getting better but still tight . i kept up with the "kroil' better now finished wirh some gun lube spray with teflon smooth as silk now!

 

I just put gobs of grease all over the parts and they never seize up. Opens like buttttaaaaaaaa