2nd Gen Tacoma Article - Hood Latch Fix :)

TacoXpo

HOAX DENIER
Okay, I realize I am probalby the only guy that has had this happen to them but the glue holding my hood latch failed! My hood started bouncing while I was cruising back from the desert...

Here is my fix (sorry I should have taken pics of the failure)...

Cleaned up the latch to remove all that stupid epoxy. fabed up a bracket that allows the 'hood-holder-lever' to still latch into the hood and weld the latch loop to the bracket...

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I will probably pop rivet every inch or so... but for now it's screwed with miscellaneous screws! :D

I hope none of you have to do this but if you do... I hope this helps!
 
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