I need some advice on getting a hood to alined up on both sides on the truck. It is a 1952 F1 and one side the hood hits the finder and on the other it has about a 1" gap. It opens and close fine with no hitting the fresh air duck when it is closed. Any information will be welcome. The hood doesn"t look bend or out of shape. Neither side of the hood has the rubber gromits in place because I didn"t want to put dents in the finder on the hitting finder side.

Larry

 

Hi Larry,

I'm not sure, I have a full front tilt so I don't have the alignment to fool with. But the posts are moving down pretty quick tonight so I'll bump this back up to the top for you and wish you good luck!

 

Thanks Julies

 

Close the hood, loosen the 3 nuts inside the cab under the dash that mount the hinge brackets - both sides and then move it around a bit to 'settle' the mounts. Tighten the nuts and see what you have.

About the only thing the shop manual helps with is that if you want a side to move down, you need to move the bracket up.

This is mostly theory for me - I just keep pushing the one side of mine down when I park.

 

Thanks for the information mtflat I will try that and see if it helps out any. If it don't I will do the same as you and push it down I just don't want to get it out of aline to far.