Hood latches

Quote from HLC45

I have a 16 SL and hood won't open. Push latch lever down and it will not move. This make it so hood is hard to open. How to fix

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When you get the hood open adjust the latches and tighten any lock nuts and bolts. There are people on here that have had the same problem some of them can explain how to open each latch.

Go to YouTube there are several vids on opening the stuck hood.

I had this problem with mine , it would take 2 people to open the hood.

Took it to Alpha got the hood reinforcement brackets and @Turbosling and @Alpha_Troy kindly installed them and adjusted the latches.

Mine was getting stuck on the upper latch by the driver side, they loosened the two bolts that lets it move up and down and lowered a bit, after several attempt this did the trick.

we have adjustable hood brackets that will make your hood open like butter!

I can walk you through install and adjustment

you can adjust the cable tension with the lock nut. The biggest problem is the OEM latches flex and bend

Quote from HLC45

Do you know if there is an adjustment for lever to get more play.

All I had to do on mine was adjust the cables to open latches at the same time.

My hood lever from factory (or dealer prep) was incredibly tight. The handle would barely move at all, and I felt I was going to break it. After the recall work, in which they must have removed hood, it would not even open.

After looking at the situation, I found the passenger cable to the latch was VERY tight. What I did.

Raise hood, and push each of the 4 latches closed....front first as the back triggers off the front. I then slowly pushed the lever, (multiple times thru process) to watch when the latches released. I loosened the cables until the hood latch handle would pivot about a third a way through its range. From stock, would barely move. I then adjusted both sides to trigger at the same time. Once the fronts triggered at same time, with good rotation on the release lever, I checked the back two to make sure they triggered at same time as front....both did.

Hood is now very easy to open, with little pressure required. By having the cables too tight, the mechanism does not rotate, and therefore you have very little to no leverage. No idea why the factory adjusted that way. Whole process took me 20-30 minutes, most of which was reviewing how the latch works, and determining the cables were too tight...not loose.

I would loosen the passengers cable slightly, which will bring the passenger and drivers more in line. Will probably see a little more movement in the handle

Want to make sure you are looking at the cable where it enter the latch from the front. The cable has a set of nuts, one on each side of the latch mount. Loosen the nuts, then screw the cable in some. A few turns make allot of difference. You probably do not need to adjust the latches themselves, only cable tension