I need to know how to remove the hood release cable on my 95 cavalier. The little T that attaches to the interior release snapped off. If you could include pics, that would be awesome, great site by the way.

It slides through the firewall. Not hard to replace. Heres a tip get some safety wire (baleing or whatever) and attach it to the end before you pull it through. you'll have to install it from the inside of the car to the engine compartment, so slide it out that way. Then using the wire you attached and pulled through attach it to the new end w/tape or whatever and pull it back through.

Good luck

When I mean slide it out that way I meant pull it out from the inside of the car FROM the engine compartment. ( the T handle wont go through the firewall). You will need to disconnect a few clamps as well.

Thanks for the quick reply, but im still a little confused.

Are you saying to replace the entire thing? not just the cable that runs through the hose/tubing but replace the tubing as well as the cable that is run through? The reason i ask is becasue the tubing and latch is fine, just the litle metal end of the cable tore off. But if its easy enough to replace all of it together thats no problem.

and to do this i can just grap one from the junk yard right?

also, how do you get the tubing (black cable the wire runs though) off of the fire wall. It looks like from under the hood it is attached by a rubber gromit or sometihng to the firewall.

Thanks for the hep.

For anyone else possibly wondering, i figures out how to fix it.

I went to the junk yard and found the same car (95 cavalier) and took off the hood latch and got to the end of the cable. I cut off the metal stopper sparing as much cable as posible. Then went to the other end (T end on the inside of the car) and pulled the cable out.

back at my car, i ran the cable back though from the inside out and attaching the T end back onto the release lever. With the other end under the hood, i used a small cable stop (got from canadian tire in the automotives section for $5) and attached it to the end of the cable in replace of the welded on piece of metal cut off at the junk yard.

** you need to attach the T end of the cable to the lever on the inside of the car FIRST. Do not attach to the latch under the hood untill after. Because you lose cable length from cutting the end off, there is constant force pulling on the wire from the latch spring. But i dont see this being a proble.

Also, because of this pulling force, you do not need the spring thing on the plastic lever inside the car. The cable pulls it back to the original position. The spring wont hurt, but makes for unnecessary work attaching it.

Hope this helps you guys, This is my first carand the first "work" a have done on it myself. i am also new to this site and its great, but noticed there is nothing on this problem so i hope this can be help to others.

any questions just ask, hopefully i can clear them up.