Cable released hatch?

[EScanlon]

Good Idea Stephen!

Hmm, and since it's "All In The Family", it could even be considered....O.E.M..

I'll have to check the bonyard.

Enrique

[260Zed]

With 3m worth of cable (118 1/8") you could get that almost to directly behind the driver's seat in the tool box area. Is that where the release handle is? I wonder if using a gas door cable from a minivan would allow you to put it near the hood one, or down on the floor like the newer gas doors.

Enrique

The release is where it would be located normally, to the seat support. I'm sure it was about 3m, ill check when I get pics.

[TomoHawk]

Instead of fooling with the lock mechanism, why not just hook up the cable to the striker bracket? If you just take out one bolt(essentially) to let it swivel and cut one side off so you have a bracket with a pin pointing to the side, you would just have to hook up the cable to the bracket to pull the in away from the hook.

Maybe even build a new bracket with a tapered hook to pull out easier. Or beef up the bracket/pin that's there (how much load is on that hook?)

[EScanlon]

Instead of fooling with the lock mechanism, why not just hook up the cable to the striker bracket? If you just take out one bolt(essentially) to let it swivel and cut one side off so you have a bracket with a pin pointing to the side, you would just have to hook up the cable to the bracket to pull the in away from the hook.

Maybe even build a new bracket with a tapered hook to pull out easier. Or beef up the bracket/pin that's there (how much load is on that hook?)

Tomy;

Is this your idea of a helpful response? A half baked idea without details and only possible and untried methods that end with a question? If so, please refrain from helping, or better yet, go try it out on YOUR car and tell us how it worked. Half baked solutions only help to muddle the discussion and split it off into a myriad of irrelevant points that have nothing to do with the original intent.

I recall a saying one of my teachers had above the chalkboard:

It is better to be silent and be considered a fool, than to open one's mouth ane remove all doubt.

I'm donning my flame suit.

Enrique

[Bambikiller240]

Said more eloquently than I would have.

[TomoHawk]

My name ISN'T Tommy.

What's the purpose of Brainstorming? And I asked a valid question!!

It's NOT a half-baked idea because I got my idea from somewhere else- I just can't remember right now. And what's wrong with trying a new direction to an idea that's not really successful?

NO, I'm NOT going to try it on my car, because I LIKE having my pushbutton lock on the hatch. If the door locks fail (kind of loose already), I can get in through the back.

So what is the purpose of having an OPEN FORUM, if only "certain people" can give opinions???

SO,if you think my idea isn't developed enough for YOU, why don't you ask for elaboration? the sketches I have in my notebook are plenty for me.

OK?

H.A.N.D.

[beandip]

Ithink you must heard it on fanticy Island. Sorry I ment Gilligan's Island.

[Tommo560]

any pics yet? i think this would be a great idea and would love to do it myself.

Tom.

[drunkenmaster]

Hi, I just check out your pics and am interested to re examine my car.

A couple questions:

1) Would it be possible to approach the latch mech. from behind the hatch trim panel rather than in front.

2) Is there any reason to stop from following the demister cable to the hatch for neatness?

Thanks, the photos are quite helpful.

[260Zed]

1) Would it be possible to approach the latch mech. from behind the hatch trim panel rather than in front.

2) Is there any reason to stop from following the demister cable to the hatch for neatness?

1. If you had a way to "push" the mechanism down rather that pull with the cable then yeah sure. I couldn't think of a way to "easily" do it, but anything is possible. The only reason it has to come out is because the cable will not bend or turn at a great enough angle to stay in the hatch.

2. Don't really know what you mean. The cable does go into the hatch, and only re-emerges at the vinyl panel. But it is early, and mornings aren't good for me :tapemouth

Hope it helped.

Luke

[TomoHawk]

the ionly way I can think of pushing down on the latch arm is to put a wedge-shaped (ball?) adapter at the end of the cable. Maybe even a cam or cam-shaped 'key' would work. The cam would also be very similar to a bellcrank arm.

thx

[sblake01]

I don't know, Tomo. It doesn't look like there is room for something like that. This would be so much simpler if the latch and striker were designed like the sedans or the ZXs. When I had my 510, I used a latch and cable from a 710 or it might even have been a 810 and it bolted right in in place of the stock latch. Then it was just a matter of installing and routing the cable and mounting the handle assembly.