Hood mounting

[Jemezcrusher]

I have one of those. Guess I should read that rather thn be lazy and ask this group

Thanks

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by Jemezcrusher

I have one of those. Guess I should read that rather thn be lazy and ask this group

Thanks

As the post I made said, you need to "understand" how things move and look at it different. There is no one here that can see what you are seeing. If I could tell you "Loosen the second bolt from the top on the hinge and move the hinge a 1/16" I would tell you that, but it's impossible for one of us to tell you exactly what you need!

Often it takes a dance of moving three or four different things. After one of them is moved, another has to be, then another, no one here can tell you exactly what YOUR truck in your garage 2000 miles away needs!

Study it a bit and understand what you are doing and go out there and make that hood fit.

Brian

[Jemezcrusher]

Took the front end off and trying to put it back on after making some holes bigger for adjustment. Looks like the right fender and inner need to rotate a little clockwise, as does the the left. The grill fits pretty good on the drivers side bit has a gap at the top of 3/4", hence the need to rotate the whole thing a little. Guess I need to loosen up the hardware and move some shims from the passenger side to the driver side (I think) of the radiator support. Kind of frustrating jacking with it all day but recall other post where multiple days may be required to get it right. Hate to think of doing this with fresh paint on it! But I guess that is what I will be doing at some point

As info, both fenders are repops

[vintovka]

I hear you on repops. So far I've spent about 30 hours trying to get chinese pass side fender anywhere close to fitting, I actually had to redrill/move all the mounting holes 1/2" back and still not right. Even the fronts have to be relocated. I have come to conclusion it will not get any better. I would also have to "stretch" grill 1/2" wider to get hood to fit evenly. The fender still appears to be cocked counter clockwise as you describe. Surprisingly the repop inner fender wells fit the original drivers side fender ok but NOT the repop passenger side. As said before these chinese jobs also have different seams and certainly different dimensions than originals and i would advise against using only one if possible I now thoroughly regret not having the original extensively repaired

[vintovka]

Mods why does every pic get posted cockeyed?

[Jemezcrusher]

The truck was in a crash and the fenders were pretty bad. The repops I have came from lmc and were triplus which have a decent reputation, but the fit is pretty bad. Not sure where I will go from here. May have to look for an original for the passenger side