Hood Install Part 1

The truck had a tilt forward front end when purchased, so the factory hardware for the normal hood hinge mechanism was missing.  I purchased a tilt forward hood system from No Limit online and the kit is fairly impressive.  Unfortunately, the nice folks that previously rebuilt this vehicle removed some firewall hinge mounts and welded over some others.  I fit the hood onto the truck just to check the alignment of the fenders and it all looked acceptable at this point.  The fenders are currently hand tight with three bolts in them and the radiator support bracket is hand tight with only one bolt holding it in place.  The whole front end is basically "sloppy."

 New hood roller bracket.  It looks good, except there are no mounting holes where there ought to be:

 Inside of the cab.  The holes have been welded over.  :o(

 Removing primer and bondo:

 

 

 You can see where the two holes were originally.  I'm going to have to measure, punch, and drill them out.

 The lip that tapers off on the top right hand corner of the stripped area is supposed to continue down the firewall and contain two more bolt holes for the factory hinge mounts.  It was apparently removed and I'll have to fab something back into place eventually.

 With the hood resting on the cab and fenders.  Not perfect, but a good start!