My '95 is acting up again, running crappy under any kind of load once it warms up. I was going to try to debug it, and ran into another problem: My hood won't open. The latch inside pulls, and the cable is intact - I grabbed it with pliers and couldn't pull it. I can hear something clicking under the hood when I pull the handle.

I think the latch is just stuck, but beating on the hood didn't unstick it. Suggestions? I felt around the latch area, but couldn't find any place to pry on to pop it open.

This is really getting annoying, too...

 

While someone holds the cable inside, smack the front/center of the hood with the palm of your hand. If it's going to open, that might provide the motivation necessary.

 

then grease the daylights outta it...solved my sticky hood.

 

Most definitely. I use lithium grease. Anything heavier and it may just make it stick worse once the grease picks up road grime and dries out a bit.

 

when my hood sticks, i grab the driverside corner above the headlight and pull straight up, hasn't fail me yet. i've tried adjusting the latch - got mixed results.

 

Got it. Beat on it a while, with the lever propped up with a worklight, and it finally popped up about an eighth of an inch. I messed around with it for 15 minutes or so trying to get it to open farther, and then when I got disgusted and closed the front door, the prop was knocked out and it opened the rest of the way.

Whose bright idea was it to open in two stages like that? While I was shooting it with the lithium grease and wiggling it around to make sure it was free again, I saw the mechanism they used to accomplish that. Good grief, what a kludge.

Now that I can get to the damned thing, I can actually go to work on diagnosing the problem...

 

you might want to clean the mechanism and also shoot some wd40 thru the cable then put lithium grease on it