I am back to this aspect of my project and have attempted to adjust the hood per Carl's procedure. I do have new hood mounting sholder bolts and none of the latch parts are installed. I am not to the fender portion of the procedure yet.
From everything I can tell my hood when aligned with the cab is positioned too far to the driver's side in the front. To align the radiator support with the hood the support would need to be off center compared to other features (support mounting holes, bumper, splash shield, etc.) leading me to believe my cab is not positioned correcty on the frame.
I removed the front cab mounting bolts and loosened the rear cab to mounting bracket bolts but can not seem to change the cab position. I considered removing the rear cab mounting bolts but am concerned that I will loose all location references at that point.
For background the cab was removed from the frame, the front cab mounting areas on both sides (including floor ito firewall areas) were rebuilt and the rear cab mounts were rebuilt with new rubber bushings as part of the build process. When I placed the cab back on the frame there was some tweaking to get bolts to align but nothing that indicated there would be a problem.
Are there dimensions that I can check associated with the position of the cab on the frame? By eye the rear of the cab appears to be parrallel to the frame cross member in that area.
If the problem is not associated with my cab position relative to the frame I think I will need to position the hood hinges such that the passenger side is very tight to the cab while the driver's side will have a significant gap to get the front of the hood centered on the radiator support, if I can even with those gap differences.
