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put a 2x4 piece of wood between the hood and core suport on passenger side. Make sure your hood bolts on the hinges are tight. Gently apply pressure on the drivers side of the hood and see if you can get it to lay flat with a good straight line between the molding and hood it may take multiple times doing this to get it right. Go slow with it you rather need to go a little more than have to work it back up. This is very common on all classic cars/trucks
Hi Boulky12:You mentioned that you have replaced the fenders and hood. When you replace a fender, very often some shimming is required to get it to line up with the door gap line, cowling gap line, and hood gap line. Take a look at all the fender (and inner fender) attachment points and see if you can possibly loosen all the fender and inner fender attachments and move the fender upwards without screwing up the gap lines or fit. If this can be done, then the vertical attachments can be shimmed to allow it to tighten up in the desired position. These shims are little horseshoe shaped shims and are readily available at good car parts stores. I dont know if this will solve your hood looseness, but it should solve your hood/fender alignment. My old 76 has a different hinge/latching mechanisms than your newer truck which I am not familiar with.Regards,Henry
Well I know that the 2x4 trick works but it would be shame to crack paint that looks that good. Shims like the other guy said can help but may cause bad gap where fender and door come together. I'm trying to think of another solution but don't know much more to do without hurting the paint but I'll keep this in mind and try to think of something