in cab hood lock/release for AD latch-Anyone?

[NEWFISHER]

I drive the Burb everyday and it parks outside 24/7. I'm tired of the old school plastic coated cable and lock system, especially after its lowered and now raining and cold here. Does anyone have a kit or has anyone fabbed a newerstyle latch into the AD trucks with an in cab lock/ release handle?
Thanks
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[mr48chev]

I don't think it would be that hard to modify the stock lever so that you could pull it with a cable from inside and then cut the tab you catch with your fingers with off. you would have to use a long enough cable so it looped around and pulled it from the front though or rig a bellcrank setup to work it.

You would want to fab a guard that kept someone from reaching in with a hook to catch it and pull it too. It's something that I have been thinking about for a while as I've come out a few times and found my hood half open. There has been nothing to steal under my hood for the past 21 years being that it is a stock 250 complete with a layer of oil on it but it also seems that old farts like to see if they can remember how to open the hood when they should know better. Some older folks seem to think that being over 75 or 80 years old exempts them from the rules the rest of us expect others to follow.

[_Ogre]

cold and raining is not cold, when it gets cold here it snows

i'd think that it would be easy to fab up a bracket to insert a lock pin
or to release a new style safety latch using a bicycle shifter and cable
using a shifter would retract the latch/pin and keep it held back while you went around and unlatched the stock hood latch

[OrrieG]

No new ideas, but what ever you do, do not defeat the secondary safety latch, I know from experience on a big truck that life gets real interesting at 65 mph when the hood comes back on the windshield.

After market remote start/alarm systems are getting pretty cheap, at least at home you would get notice someone is messing with it. In college in El Paso I had a VW van that people tried to boost on a regular basis dispite me taking the rotor to class, battery and fuel cut offs and motion detector alarm. A couple of times I had to go find it when they had tried to push start it. Also instructed the local cops on where the alarm silence switch was so they could shut it off. For those that do not know UTEP in right on the Rio Grande, which is the border to Mexico and at that time was one of the major illegal border crossings. A simple bribe would get anyone back across the border regardless of what they were driving.

[55dude]

i recall seeing one that had used a O.E.M. style door lock setup that used a remote fob to operate, could have been a remote trunk latch.

[Lextech]

I saw one years ago that was off of a VW Beetle. Probably mid 60 thru 70s would work. I remember it looking like a pretty neat and pretty easy looking modification.

Jeff

[tttuba]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

No new ideas, but what ever you do, do not defeat the secondary safety latch, I know from experience on a big truck that life gets real interesting at 65 mph when the hood comes back on the windshield.

After market remote start/alarm systems are getting pretty cheap, at least at home you would get notice someone is messing with it. In college in El Paso I had a VW van that people tried to boost on a regular basis dispite me taking the rotor to class, battery and fuel cut offs and motion detector alarm. A couple of times I had to go find it when they had tried to push start it. Also instructed the local cops on where the alarm silence switch was so they could shut it off. For those that do not know UTEP in right on the Rio Grande, which is the border to Mexico and at that time was one of the major illegal border crossings. A simple bribe would get anyone back across the border regardless of what they were driving.

Been there done that when I was a kid. Friend driving 56 Ford sedan and the hood came open at about 40 MPH on a city road and we knew there was a Gas tanker going the opposite way we didn't want to hit. I think being the passenger was worse than being the driver. Safety latches are your friend.