Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

Yesterday night I was driving up to my friends house and to make a long story short, I hit some gravel and understeered off the road and into the side of a mountain (mostly just brush and ----).

Bumper is fine besides needing new paint, and everything still lines up, but the hood won't stay shut... the safety lock holds the hood down, but the main one doesn't stay.

any suggestions?

Re: Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

core support could be pushed in slightly throwing the latch out of alighnment. you'll just have to look it over and mess with it until you figure it out.

Re: Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

Same thing happened on my old accord, I just gave it a flying knee kick to latch the hood. Actually it was a jumping knee drop but whatever works.

Re: Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

Go back and crash in to the mountian with the other side now, maybe it will even things out?

Re: Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

hehe... nah, i hit it almost dead on... so that would be the back i would have to hit..

I tried pushing down the latch with a screwdriver and it still doesn't latch... ----

Re: Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

Bungee cord or rope, or a couple layers of speaker/welding wire.

Re: Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

duck tape

Re: Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

jb weld

Re: Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

A sledgehammer will save your knees.

Re: Hood latch is all fucked up...
 

ok.. so ive tried kicking it and pulling and all that all to no avail..

also..... now I'm runnning kind of rich (on maf setup that usually tells me i have a pipe off).... I still make the full 8 lbs, but it spools later.

I was thinking I had a leak in one of my pipes but I can't see any. and i don't think the manifold is cracked because it doesn't sound different.