Dodge dakota grill hood latch extension

Hello, I istall a new aluminum mesh grill into my 1997 dakota, the instructions that came with the kits were vague at best. Installed the grills okay but now I am not able to get to the hood release latch under the hood. The instructions said to drill a small hole, here I'll let you read it "SIDE NOTE: 97+ Dakota and Durango owners will need to extend the hood latch because with the mesh installed it will not be accessible. Drill a small hole up through the hood latch release lever. You can purchase a 12" section of No. 6-32 threaded rod from the hardware store (The weight of this item would make the increase in shipping charges more than its actual cost so I don't' include it in the kit). Run the rod up through the hole you drilled in the release lever and cap it with a 6-32 cap nut. Where the rods hangs down screw a 1/2" aluminum coupler up from the bottom of the rod and also cap the bottom end with a 6-32 cap nut. It works perfectly. Pop the hood, reach between the grill and the bumper, and that 1/2" coupler is real easy to grab onto and pull down." ------I tried this but ended up breaking the 6/32 rod and I just could not picture hoew this thing was suppose to work. Does any one have any better ideas, pictures say a thousand words so if you could some how sent me a schematice or detailed drawing of your idea or the idea mention above please send it to my email address: [email protected]

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you might try the Dakota forum...

heres a link..

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/f141/

First-welcome to AF :wave:
Second-welcome to the Honda forum :rolleyes:
And about your problem, I can kinda visualize in my head how to do it and what's going on. Where did you get the mesh grille kit from, have a website addy for me or something? Anyways, I'm not exactly sure without seeing how the things work. So I'll look around and see what I can find. But if you could tell me where you got it from and a website or something, that would be great. :)

Originally posted by 88CiViC_DX
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we're here to help, anyone and everyone no matter where they post it.

geez....sorry... I posted a link to teh Dakota forum, just figured someone there might know better than I would..

Originally posted by 88CiViC_DX
geez....sorry... I posted a link to teh Dakota forum, just figured someone there might know better than I would.. oh please, you know how much activity the rest of the forums get :lol2:

true.... i didnt really think about that :D

alright, I looked for a little bit and couldn't find anything.
I would suggest going to http://www.dodgedakotas.com/ and asking them there. That's all that they deal with there is dakotas, so I'm guessing they would know more than we would. :)

i guess that guy left cuz 88CiViC_DX told him to go somewhere else. haha