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Thank you Tod for locking. Just to clarify the reason for no political/religion threads is because inevitable someone gets pissed off and it turns ugly. I have seen other forums destroyed by this behavior going rampant. Unfortunately "if people act as adults" is not a given based on my experience. 😒 Robert, the idea is P15-D24 is a safe haven from the the many "outside forces" that can distract us from the primary objective, keeping our mopars on the road!

I am not so sure I can help you except to say it can be done...while my hood was open and foreseeing such an event you describe....I made a special shaped metal rod to g between the grill slats, rotate a few degrees and catch against the lever and with a bit of a push you can get it to pop up....you can make similar just by looking between the slats and getting an image of the under side of the latch

I have a long screw driver. Bent it with a torch.it engages latch as shown above. It can also where cable is clamped to the assembly. It worked better when I was 56 as opposed to 76 as getting on the ground comes into play.

Hello OUTFXD, I have a 46 Dodge Special Deluxe but a Canadian Model. I just went out and got a picture in hopes it helps. I am not sure your release set up would be the same as mine but it is all I can offer. I can only think of two options as accessing the catch from below appears impossible. The photo orientation is the square hole is to the front of the grille. On the right side of the photo is the connection of the cable to the mechanism. If you have a small gap between the hood and the grille you may be able to insert a thin piece of steel, (Metal Ruler) and push the knob back towards the firewall at the appropriate angle. You would have to be right of the secondary latch and angled slightly from left to right to get the proper directional push. The connection between the catch and the wire is slightly recessed with a raised lip around it so you may have to bend the front edge of the flat bar down a bit. This idea only works if there is a bit of room between hood and grille. The second option would be to create an L shaped piece of perhaps 1/4 or 3/8" round stock or ready rod with enough length to reach through the grille and up the hole of the mechanism from below. I am not sure you could get enough purchase on the round stock to push that mechanism back but you never know. Both of these require steady hands and patience, neither of which I have. Best I can come up with and good luck. Dave

Thanks for the door switch pic, am sure will be appreciated by those requesting it.

If you need the idle speed to be that high for good drivability then you likely have something wrong somewhere. Either your carburetor is not properly adjusted to be too lean, or to fat, or your ignition timing is off. It could also be that your points aren't providing the proper dwell time for good coil performance, which causes weak spark and sometimes maladjusted ignition timing. Another possibility is that you have a vacuum leak somewhere. This will also cause an over lean condition at idle which makes the engine not want to perform correctly at idle.

Oddly, none of the members who report violations of this forum’s rules reported this thread. It does appear to be purely political so I am locking it but leaving it visible.

Sam HAve you contacted Steele rubber products. They make new motor mount with fresh rubber and should be softer. Yes the NOS mounts can harder up over the years so if they are around a cheap price might be too hard to use in a car or truck. Always ask for new rubber. Rich Hartung Desoto1939@aol.com