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Front hood issue........

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I have been dealing with this front hood for about a month now and I am stuck... The front hood sometimes open sometimes doesn't. I took off the hood latch (thru emergency release cable) inspected, lubricated then reinstalled and it doesn't open anymore. I also tried the screwdriver trick on the hood latch and when press the release switch from the interior, it doesn't seem the metal cable was able to pull all the way to release the latch and thought maybe I have a bad hood latch. I purchased a used 996 hood latch off ebay and install it over the weekend but the problem did not solve. The hood still doesn't open and tried the screwdriver trick......

It looks like to me the metal cable "the actuator?" doesn't pull far enough to release the latch? Now I am stuck and don't know what to looking into. Any advice what could possibly be wrong?

Thanks!

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I have been dealing with this front hood for about a month now and I am stuck... The front hood sometimes open sometimes doesn't. I took off the hood latch (thru emergency release cable) inspected, lubricated then reinstalled and it doesn't open anymore. I also tried the screwdriver trick on the hood latch and when press the release switch from the interior, it doesn't seem the metal cable was able to pull all the way to release the latch and thought maybe I have a bad hood latch. I purchased a used 996 hood latch off ebay and install it over the weekend but the problem did not solve. The hood still doesn't open and tried the screwdriver trick......

It looks like to me the metal cable "the actuator?" doesn't pull far enough to release the latch? Now I am stuck and don't know what to looking into. Any advice what could possibly be wrong?

Thanks!

Adjusting Hood Latch Mechanism

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