The video is pretty close to the way to get our hoods open but not quite the same as the lever he was talking about on our cars is a little bit more easy to get to. You don't have to stick your finger in any hole as the lever is visible when your under the car looking up into the core support. If you look up at where the hood release is mounted you can see the where the cable comes into the hood release. If you then look at the hood latch you will be able to feel up in there so you can work the lever to the right, you have to push the lever to the right towards the passenger side of the car. The hood will then pop up so you can get in . As far as the handle you can try to push the handle assy. back into place & it will then hold just enough to be able to open the hood. . But if it's pulled out enough , at least about 1/2 inch you can grab the casing of the hood release cable with some long needle nose pliers & pull the handle the same way you would if it was still in the kick panel. But if the cable is broken the handle will come all the way out with the rest of the broken cable with it. Hopefully the cable just came loose & it's not broken as the handle assy. is hard to came by as well as the coupler that joins the 2 piece cable together. The cable on our cars are a 2 piece design , & then in 75 they went to a 1 piece design.
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