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Location: Hampton, VA
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Powered hood??
I keep eyeing the powered rear hatch mechanism on my 2012 Acadia and have wondered if I could make something like that work on my hood.
Thoughts??
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Toppenish, WA
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Re: Powered hood??
You would have to figure out how to actuate the latch and how to actuate the safety catch.
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Re: Powered hood??
The Acadia lift assembly is pretty big. The lift in the GMC Terrain is all in the gas strut. Might look into that instead.
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Re: Powered hood??
Struts won't do what he wants to do an that is hit a switch or remote and have the hood open on it's own.
To do that he has to have a power hood release plus a power hood safety catch and you sure don't want to drive one of these trucks on the highway without a safety catch that works.
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Re: Powered hood??
You're right about that! It happened to me one time in a 49 I had. The hood flew open and scared the bejesus out of me!!
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Woburn, MA
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Re: Powered hood??
The powered hood safety latch that mr48chev mentioned is on my search list of solutions to un-powering electric door poppers when truck is in motion or in gear. Sort of a like a neutral safety switch on a motorcycle. Anyone think of a known device out there that would adapt to a T5 tranny or otherwise do the job?
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