First, special thanks to Bob for pointing me in the right directions

I am a You Tube trained welder with Harbor Freight equipment, I have more to do but I am taking it to a body shop soon to get into primer so I stopped.

I spent $40.00 bucks at Home Depot for 3/16 treaded rods, nuts, washers, and 2” angle iron.

Instead of welding to the hood frame I used 3/16 rivets

Cut the angle iron to the width of the rib, drilled the holes and welded tabs at angles for the treaded rods.

i was able to bend the rods into the holes after threading them into rivets.

Because the rods have nuts on the back of the tabs I was able to adjust each side of the hood independently.

I may have to adjust the fenders a bit and notch the brace that is hitting the roller track on the passenger side.

Over all I brought the hood independently 3/4” on the driver side and just over 1/4” on the drivers side. The fenders in the front have a gap one one side and almost hit in the other.

Passenger side before gap

Hitting fender on driver side

Roller will not stay in track

3/16 rivet

Tool casualty

Angle iron on hood, fit flush after being trimmed to length

Attached bracket. The bolts on the inside allow to adjust each side of the hood.

Threaded rod fits great. May go back and try and bend up a little more

Roller bracket hits here, may trim it to go down but over all not a bad fit



After hood a little high but not bad

After driver side, fits so easily

After passenger small gap and high

Very tight on passenger

Big gap in drivers.

Small gap

 

Cool!