Well I went by a junkyard today...they had a fiberglass hoof on a 3rd gen firebird I wanted to pick up. Well, I leaned in the car to pull the hood latch thing....and the entire thing pulled out....so I was kinda worried at this point...went to the front and could not get the hood to come up...

Is there a way to get the hood off without damaging it?

 

You will probably have to crawl under the car and work on the latch a bit. Take some spray lube. You may end up taking the entire latch off. You may have to jack the car up to get under it.

 

my girlfriend had this same thing happen in her s-10. we just took a pair of vice grips and pulled on the lever where the hood pop used to be. did just the hand latch part break off? does it have a metal rod behind it? if it does just take some vice grips with ya.

 

I was hoping for that to work...but i pulled that panel off and pulled the metal rod...only for it to pull out of the car...so I was very dissapointed. Im gonna give it a try in a few days, see if I can comeup with something

 

oh, wow. the whole thing is gone. well...