I think all there sayin with SCRIBIN the hinge is to help get the hood alighnment darn close to where it was after you put the hing back on .
Remember whoever wrote the TO for that section of your manual was trying to make the instructions as user freindly for the not so mechanically inclined users also.
I could be wrong


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