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I'm done with painting the dashboard . But there's still work to do in the cabin (carpet, back wall lining, kick panels). After I've finished all the work in the cabin, I'll try to align the hood. One side fits perfect when closed, the other side always shows a gap of about 2/3 inch where the hinge is mounted.
I already tried to move the hinge itself and widened the holes a bit to provide more sideway range, but I'll need to wide the holes in height as well
to get the hood down. I'll give it a try, but when this fails, I'm thinking about a hood tilt conversion, using a tilt hood kit like this one:https://www.summitracing.com/int/par...rd/model/f-100
Are these kits as easy to install as described and do they really solve the issues with the hood alignment once and for all? Any expierences?
I messed around with the original hinges for days trying to get the hood to lay flush. I finally gave up and got a tilt kit. I used the No Limit Engineering tilt kit that I picked up from Midwest Early Ford out of Ohio. It is on page 62 of their catalog.
It only took me a couple hours to do and was very simple. Mid Fifty has a Video in their instructions that helped a lot. I can provide more pics if needed.
The po had installed A front tilled hood on the truck. However, the back corners did not fit right. One was touching the fender and the other had a three-quarter inch gap. I had to fabricate little braces so that I can adjust the corner fitment. Good luck, Jag
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hood conversion to front tilt
. But there's still work to do in the cabin (carpet, back wall lining, kick panels). After I've finished all the work in the cabin, I'll try to align the hood. One side fits perfect when closed, the other side always shows a gap of about 2/3 inch where the hinge is mounted.
