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Old 11-18-2023, 11:32 PM
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I had to make more room underneath the core support and in the interest of time I quickly chopped the area larger. If I ever have the nose off I'll go back and clean it up more, but at least it's not something that anyone will see so I won't fret over it. I also made a clip out of a sheet metal clip nut to help secure the cable end onto the included end piece. It appeared to only press on, which was loose at best, and I wouldn't want this falling off while driving and then not be able to open the hood. Better to over engineer it now while I'm at home working on this. The addition of the lever housing underneath the dash was straight forward, and the unit has just enough cable to reach the front.

Once I reattached the latch to the core support the locking mechanism hit the top of the core support and wouldn't open. This was solved by adding a few washers between the latch mounting tabs and the core support. Other than making sure I put the latch back in the same spot no further tuning was needed. It works and now I can move onto the next project(s)
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