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Hood opener repair

I repaired the wire of the hood opener that was broken on the last weekend.

First of all I removed the wire…

Then, I failed a little.  When I was loosening the small bolt fixing the wire, I intended to be careful but I dropped it carelessly.  I did this very often.  And it was very hard to find it if it dropped into the engine room especially.


But this time I could luckily find the bolt that was caught between the engine cam cover and water hose for heater.



I removed the cable of the hood opener to replace the inner wire.  (There was almost no damage in the outer cable.)
I found the stainless wire with same diameter at the DIY hardware store near my house.


The inner wire was replaced.


The replacement of the inner wire was very easy like this.  I made the wire length little bit longer than the original one.


I set the wire to the opener linkage on the engine room side.



I prepared secret props. 


To fix the wire end with these clamps to avoid the wire dropping off.  Because I imagined that it could be very complicated situation if the wire dropping of would happen in the engine room.


I did it like this.  I thought the risk of the wire dropping off was removed.

The other end of the wire was inserted to the cabin.


The wire was fixed to the opener lever in the same way.


Finally I tested whether the opener worked, and it worked well! ☺︎


(My original blog was written on 1st Dec. 2008)
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