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Thank you for the reply. I purchased a cable and will do the repair sometime over the next few weekends.
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In case this may help, my '98 LS400 had a temperature sensor issue a couple years ago. It started giving inaccurate outside temps, usually 4-8 degrees warmer than ambient temp. Then it fluctuated more wildly over time until eventually it read -22 degrees and it stuck there. Lexus wanted $60 to just check it out. Instead I found the outside sensor under the front bumper, just a little to the passenger side of the front license plate and clipped underneath, and took it out. The problem was easy to see immediately because the wires heading into the sensor clip/connector had corroded.
I purchased a connector online (part # 90980-11070) and stripped the existing corroded wires and re-attached the wires to the new connector. I also purchased a new temperature sensor for about $30, but that probably wasn't necessary. Bottom line about 30 minutes of work and now the temperature sensor works great!
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I have a '98 LS400 and the hood release cable binds, so that the hood won't close without manual intervention to pull the hood release cable back to its original position. I believe the cable needs to be replaced. Does anyone know if the cable runs through the front driver's side wheel well, or only under the hood area? Lexus said they want $600 to fix and I believe the part is about $30, so I'd like to try to fix it myself with this forum's assistance.
Thank you,
Keith
1998-2000 Ls400 Hood Release Cable Replacement
in 90 - 00 Lexus LS400
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Here's my recap of replacing the hood release cable on a 1998 LS400.
Original Symptom:The main symptom I had before was when I pulled the hood release lever (by driver's left knee) it didn't spring back into place. When the hood release doesn't spring back into place, the hood won't shut anymore because the hood latch is still in a closed condition. This started 3-4 years ago. I lived with it by manually getting it to spring back into place by a few different options:
a. sprayed with WD-40 where I could and pulled the lever a number of times until it sprung back
b. used a screwdriver in the hood latch itself to manually pry the cable toward the passenger side headlight
c. switched to a stronger spring inside the hood latch ($3 spring and 30 minutes of my time) but that didn't work well because the hood release cable was too rusted/bound by then.
d. hooked up a string of plastic tie-down cables to the hood cable in the latch so I could manually pull the cable back into place. This worked well but wasn't the right solution.
Finally I determined to just fix it properly, posted initially to this site to get help, and purchased a new cable $30... I just completed the repair this afternoon and it took about 2 1/2 hours in total. If I had to do it over again it would take probably an hour.
Replacement steps I took:
The hood release opens and springs back just like brand new! In hindsight I should have replaced it years ago when I first noticed the difficulty, but back then I wasn't sure what the real problem was.
I also found this for a 1998 GS300 which was similar, but not exactly the same. http://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-second-generation/408674-diy-hood-latch-cable-replacement-2.html