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Re: Spit bonnet cracks

To: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Spit bonnet cracks
From: john donohoe <gt6driver@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:33:43 -0800 (PST)
Um... how does one lift the bonnet then? I've been raising my GT6+
bonnet (often!) for 15 years now by grasping said handle and
lifting... Where else would one "get a grip"?

John Donohoe
'70 GT6+ KC81718
'70 GT6+ (future Sixfire?)

---Lawrence R Zink <zink@pdq.net> wrote:
>
> 
> ...remember that the latches are to hold the hood 
> assembly in place and not to be used as handles to 
> raise the hood by.  They were not designed to take the stress of
raising the bonnet...As newbies to the 
> vehicles we all made the same mistake...




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