Just making sure I do this right. This is a picture of the hood mechanism on drivers side from within the fender. Am I to push towards the firewall from where the spring is attached between the forks?

That'd be towards the right on the picture. I'm coming in from the bottom left. I tried pushich up and towards the firewall but it didn't release. Maybe I went at it wrong so I'm checking.

Don't want to break anything more as its apparent to me the car needs no help in that department 😩 ... it's never nothing.

The slot where the spring attaches, is that a good point to put apply pressure to release the latch to open the hood?

The cable end jumped ship. A bump in the road did this.


Thanks

 

Here is what you are looking at from a different view.
Stretch the spring.
The part with the J stamped on it needs to go towards the rear of the car.

This is from one of my salvage cars on my property.

 

Bob, what's a good way to prevent this? Just crimp the cup that the ball sits in when its in working condition? Bit of solder to join it more firmly?

 

I used a very small zip tie to hold the cable in place to the bracket/lever so that the ball wouldn't pop out on my 2001 XJR