As the title states.

This happened to me the first time back in 05. Just going down the highway and bam hood hit the windscreen. Busted it all to pieces, broken hinges, and a smashed hood. The recall for the hood latch was done long ago. After having to spend quite a few dollars to replace all those parts she is back together. Well fast forward to tonight. Yesterday I finished installing a new injection pump, Airdog 150, and new injectors. Took it out for a spin last night all seems well. Took it for a few more spins today no issue everything is going great. Went to run over to a friends house and as I am going 75 down the highway BAM! The hood comes up AGAIN! Cant see crap slowly slow down and pull over. Get out of the truck and climb up on the front to pry the hood off the roof and windscreen. Grab a strap out of the box and strap my new pretzel down and continue on my way. Hinges are ruined so is the hood. The latches are all bent up. But the windscreen is fine. At least I do not have to replace that again. So I am hoping there is a truck in the yard I can rob the hinges, hood, grill, and latches off of next weekend. As last time I bought new parts and hot damn you would think Dodge made their hinges out of gold or something for the cash they want. So I unbolted the hinges and hood at my friends house and strapped it down to the bed and went home.

Has anyone else had this happen or does my truck just want to be hood less and I am just to dumb to see it?

 

this use to happen a lot when hoods didnt have a safety latch. all hoods use to unlatch outside. since they went to inside latches i never seen this. man thats some bad luck right there. is latch breaking or springs broke

 

There was a recall on the secondary hood latch system some years back. Don't know what all years it covered but my 99 was on the list and done.

 

Does it (recall)cover 97 trucks?

 

I'm on my cellphone right now waitin for my puter to get fixxed. If somebody doesn't get to it first I'll check alldata later today and see if can find the recall.

 

not to be a smart ***, but are you sure you are closing your hood right?
(everyone was thinking it, I just said it)

But really, is anything sheared or snapped on the hood latches? Did your hood work normally up to that point? Have you checked the cable linkage for the hood to see if there is anything that might have pulled it by accident?

I was driving with JUST the secondary latch for a little bit going highway speeds any it didnt let up. Not sure how it was different on a '98.5 than a '01 though.

 

Yes the hood was closed. I drove it around all day before it happened. The main latch is bent now. Umm the safety latch is now somewhere on the highway.
it was ripped off I assume. Well it is off to the yard this weekend.

 

yeh mine does that sometimes... its only being held on by the secondary latch... it does it almost every day... im just waiting for it to break.. does the recall cover '95 trucks???

 

Safety Recall No. 973 - Secondary Hood Latch





1994-1999 (BR/BE) Dodge Ram Truck

NOTE: This recall applies only to the above trucks built at the:

Warren Assembly Plant ("S " in the 11th VIN position) built through May 7, 1999 (MDH 0507XX).
Saltillo Assembly Plant ("G " in the 11th VIN position) built through April 14, 1999 (MDH 0414XX).
Lago Alberto Assembly Plant ("M " in the 11th VIN position) built through April 21, 1999 (MDH 0421XX).
St. Louis North Assembly Plant ("J" in the 11th VIN position) built through May 10, 1999 (MDH 0814XX through 0510XX).

 

Good info, I think I am gonna put a steel cable on mine.