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The bonnet pull on my Daihatsu Fourtrak is really stiff suggesting it is likely to fail soon. Rather than having a stuck bonnet I thought I would fit a new cable.
New cables are very difficult to find and the ones I have found come from dodgy looking websites I am unsure of buying from.
Are bonnet cables from other similar (Toyota?) cars likely to be interchangeable?
I think Daihatsu recommend using baling twine.
It's probably the latch mechanism seizing up due to being many olds.
Latch has been cleaned and lubed.
The cable is not moving well in the outer so either frayed or rusted. either not good and I don't want it to snap with the bonnet closed so want to replace.
Make one up. . solderless nipples and brake cable?
In which case throw away catch and cable....
Fit hood clamps #racingfourtrak
The cable is not moving well in the outer so either frayed or rusted. either not good and I don’t want it to snap with the bonnet closed so want to replace.
Happened to my old Transit, right pain in the arse to get it open with a knackered catch, took absolutely ages. Had never broken one before. After a couple of hours of prodding it with screwdriver and much seearing eventually got it open. Topped up the washer I was intending to do, had a bit left so put it in the wife's car, then that wouldn't. Two catches killed on the same day!
I have suffered the pain on the Barchetta and never again. I ended up unscrewing the two bolts that connect to the bonnet from underneath using a screwdriver melted into a socket with two flexi socket connectors to get to them. Absolute bastard.
Looking at baler twine as a temp safety fix
eBay? It's where I get lots of parts for the Passat. But then, it's a common car.
Ebay and Amazon and every other online dealer says they have the parts. Click the link and they have a Ford Mondeo bonnet catch or similar.
I wish sometimes the search engines would reurn only accurate matches and not just anything that seems kind of similar
Still got a Fourtrak? Can't be long until something around the bonnet catch rusts away enough to automatically release it anyway 😉😄
Find something solid and screw a hasp on to put a bent nail through.
Used to be popular with farmers for towing more than they could stop, but not many left that can make it through a MoT test.
Milner off-road?
Give Adam a shout at LAR 4x4. He’s always got breakers in.
Search for "fourtrack breaking" on eBay, there appears to be 1p or so cars, just drop each a mesaage
I wish sometimes the search engines would reurn only accurate matches and not just anything that seems kind of similar
Use double quotes around the thing you really want.
There are a few websites which search scrap yards, maybe try one one of those?
Breakeryard.com, breakerlink.com, that sort of thing?
My zafira has recently got a nice bit of old bike brake cable as an addition poking out the bonnet side after mine snapped. If I can brave the refit of a new one I will eventually, but its a real fiddly PITA from what I've seen to route it through.
[i]Still got a Fourtrak? Can’t be long until something around the bonnet catch rusts away enough to automatically release it anyway[/i]
Are you suggesting that there might be rust?
I will send you a bag of the chassis and you can inspect it yourself!
🙂
Looking at baler twine as a temp safety fix
Farm engineering, what could possibly go wrong?
[i]Farm engineering, what could possibly go wrong?[/i]
One of my other cars has a spoke threaded through the bonnet catch with the spoke nipple holding it in place and it is bend 90 degrees and pokes out of the grill. Pull that sideways and the bonnet releases.
It was a temporary road side fix in 2013.
Isn't it just a Bowden cable? Looks like these people can repair / replace