My trunk, as well as my doors are all run on remote solenoids. The ones I use are pull cable style.
With my trunk, the way I fashioned mine to work was I took that small skinny piece of metal that generally runs from the lock cylinder down into the latch. Its about 3" long or so, I bent that into a right angle and put it in backwards so the right angle was facing down into the trunk, and towards the front of the car.
I then drilled a small hole it in, fastened the solenoid to the right of it (passenger side) and so when the cable pulls, it pulls the piece of metal to the right and viola, it makes the trunk latch release. I had to fashion a return spring to make it rebound back into the "unlatched" position. But after some tuning, tweaking, and getting locked out my trunk a couple times it works pretty well.
This is on a 69 trunk though, I'm not sure how the 65's are setup (my 62 nova was the same) but I thought you may want to know how someone else delt with the problem.
Wes
btw. the solenoids I used are from VPA. Summit carries them.
With my trunk, the way I fashioned mine to work was I took that small skinny piece of metal that generally runs from the lock cylinder down into the latch. Its about 3" long or so, I bent that into a right angle and put it in backwards so the right angle was facing down into the trunk, and towards the front of the car.
I then drilled a small hole it in, fastened the solenoid to the right of it (passenger side) and so when the cable pulls, it pulls the piece of metal to the right and viola, it makes the trunk latch release. I had to fashion a return spring to make it rebound back into the "unlatched" position. But after some tuning, tweaking, and getting locked out my trunk a couple times it works pretty well.
This is on a 69 trunk though, I'm not sure how the 65's are setup (my 62 nova was the same) but I thought you may want to know how someone else delt with the problem.
Wes
btw. the solenoids I used are from VPA. Summit carries them.
