SaviouR

Roughly a year ago when I changed my oil out I yanked the Hood lever too hard and the wire went out more than it should of along with the actual plastic piece breaking off. I have to use pliers to get it to open and if I want to close it I have to push the wire back in.

Just today I was changing out my oil and tried to do the same thing accept that even when I push the wire in it still doesn't latch all the way down. I'm thinking that the wire is loose because I can tug on it more than usual so is there a quick fix for this because I don't want to pay for a whole new hood latch assembly.

If I have to how much was the whole setup cost?

EDIT My car is a 1998 Honda Civic LX Sedan.

Civic2Scooby

take a screwdriver and reset the hood relase latch. If you take a flashlight and look down in the latch you will see a little lever that the release wire attaches to. Take a screw driver and flick it over.

SaviouR

I'll give that a try soon enough.

There's also a lot of small black goo deposits all over the hood latch too -- what can I use to get rid of all of it?

Civic2Scooby

pb blaster.

SaviouR

The return spring of the front latch has one side completely bent out of shape so it looks like I might as well buy a whole new assembly at this rate; what's the general price range on a hood latch assembly at a junk yard?

I'm going to have to take off the grill, front bumper, and the hood latch assembly so I might as well bite the bullet and replace all of it sans the cable line.