Re: [Chrysler300] 300D hood release

[Bill Huff <czbill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No but mine has fallen on me a couple of times in 
my shop.  I use a stick now cause I can't tell when it will let go.

Bill Huff


At 9/16/201011:39 AM, Keith Boonstra wrote:
>
>
>It's interesting, then, that in the light of going through that
>embarrassment (let alone any corporate concern for the customer's
>safety) the only change/improvement to the latch post-incident was to
>make it a double catch. Seems that was a cheaper, but certainly less
>secure, arrangement. A second lever latch would have been nice.
>
>For all of us, though, it's a heads up to make sure our main latch pins
>are adjusted so as to click twice when we close the hood. I recall
>reading here of someone who had his only catching on the first detent.
>
>Anybody here ever have their hood fly up at speed in a 300?
>
>Keith Boonstra
>
>-
>
>On 9/16/2010 10:43 AM, <mailto:JLSAVARD%40aol.com>JLSAVARD@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Trivia from the ancient past:
> > On the day of the press introduction of the 1957 Chryslers, the
> > Carburetor Laboratory, where I was working, had the only C300 C
> > available for the press to drive. Persons were assigned to drive the
> > car from Central Engineering to the Chelsea proving grounds for this
> > REALLY BIG occasion. Remember, these were brand-new bodies, then, and
> > the C300's had a hood and front end design totally different from
> > anything else. They were RARE!
> > On the way out to the P.G., the hood latch totally failed, and the
> > hood blew up and back over the windshield of the test car. No other
> > cars or hoods were available, so Chrysler was forced to use that car
> > for demonstrations, kinks and all!
> > I'm pretty sure that any changes in latch design were influenced by
> > that event!
> > Joe Savard, Lake Orion, Michigan
> > In a message dated 9/16/2010 10:01:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > <mailto:kboonstra%40zeegroup.com>kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> > Tom, it looks like you may have everything you need already. There is
> > no second safety latch or spring - just a two-step main latch. On the
> > other hand, if yours actually has a cable release on it, someone has
> > changed yours from original. In that case your junk yard crawl
> > won't do
> > you any good unless there's a 300 there. The other Chrysler models
> > used
> > an entirely different latch set that is upside down from the 300 one.
> >
> > If you don't have a cable release, you probably have the right
> > thing the
> > way it is.
> >
> > Keith Boonstra
> >
> > -
> >
> > On 9/15/2010 6:43 PM, Tom Chvapil wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > My 58 D is missing the safety hood release and the spring that
> > 'pops' the
> > > hood up when you release the cable.
> > > If someone could take a picture of the assembly and send it to
> > me, I would
> > > really appreciate it. It would help me a lot in locating the right
> > > piece(s)
> > > when I do my monthly junk yard crawl...
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tom and Jean in Tucson
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
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