daveSanborn
Active Member
When building my sons car a couple years ago, he wanted to delete the keyed opening and go with an electric popper to unlock the trunk latch. The downside to this is when the battery is relocated to the trunk and it mysteriously goes dead.
How to unlock the trunk?
I looked at the latch the other night and came up with a neat little trick.....
You know how if you stick a screwdriver into the slot of the trunk latch and turn it the mechanism will unlock? I made a small "L" shaped lever and inserted it into the rear side of the latch. To hold the "L" into the latch mechanism I drilled a small hole into one end of the "L" and cotter pinned it. On the other leg of the "L" I drilled another small hole and attached an 8" piece of wire routed downward and out through the rear of the car terminating up under the rear bumper. In the event that the battery ever goes dead again, to open the trunk all you have to do is reach up under the bumper and pull downward on the wire... the "L" rotates and the latch pops open.
How to unlock the trunk?
I looked at the latch the other night and came up with a neat little trick.....
You know how if you stick a screwdriver into the slot of the trunk latch and turn it the mechanism will unlock? I made a small "L" shaped lever and inserted it into the rear side of the latch. To hold the "L" into the latch mechanism I drilled a small hole into one end of the "L" and cotter pinned it. On the other leg of the "L" I drilled another small hole and attached an 8" piece of wire routed downward and out through the rear of the car terminating up under the rear bumper. In the event that the battery ever goes dead again, to open the trunk all you have to do is reach up under the bumper and pull downward on the wire... the "L" rotates and the latch pops open.