hood latch

I had the same problem about 2 years ago on my 99 F150. After close hunting and searching I found there was a spring that was broken in around the latch. If you look down in at the back side of the latch you will see a spring that is about 1/2 inch dia and just under that should be another spring that is about 3/8 inch dia. That smaller spring was what was broken on mine. I didn't really find it until I removed the two bolts holding the latch assembly into place and then the fault was obvious. I popped the old broken spring out and found a replacement in the hardware store which looked pretty close to the same size. I had to rebend the ends a bit to install it but it has worked fine ever since. Hopefully your problem will be the same so it is easy to fix as well.

Cheers, Lawrence

That's a lot of work to save the $25 cost of a new latch.

Whitelightning

Wasn't really a lot of work. The two bolts would have to be taken out to replace the latch anyway and the spring I bought was the type that had just straight ends so they could be bent with a pair of pliers into a curve to hook into where the old spring connected. The cost was about

89 cents. I think the local dealer to me quoted me a cost of about $63 (Canadian) or something strange like that. That was the main reason why I took a crack at it myself first.

Cheers, Lawrence