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I posted this in my journal, but thought I’d ask here too:

I started sanding on the “new, good” 1970 C10 hood and am questioning things. The skin isn’t what I’d call “tight, tight.” I see serious highs and lows that I figured weren’t as bad as I thought as I ran my hand over the surface. It isn't quite canning, but bounces up and down , and isn’t tight. The right side is pretty serious as you can see in the picture. I’d rather not have to use filler over most of the hood. Weird thing though, is that it is almost symmetrical left to right, with the right being more advanced. I’m wondering if new vibration pads will help enough to warrant “little filler.” Anybody run into similar? Thoughts, Bolters?

[added your pic from your journal post]

You should be able to work those ridges down toward the right front and get that side flattened a bit. But you may need access to the back side to hold your dolly in the right spot. Maybe enough to get it flat with a few coats of primer or a slight skim of filler.

Maybe Robert (MPandC) has some ideas for you.

That is the kicker. Those ridges are right on the brace on the backside.

Unless the skin is in contact with the brace underneath, you should be able to tap the ridges down, holding your dolly against the underside just away from the ridge. But not being there to see it, it's hard to say how to fix it.

It looks like from the picture, someone pressed or something heavy was placed on the hood, and the brace caused the crease and subsequent low spots. If that is the case, a dolly in the deepest low spot under the hood pressing up and gentle tapping on the crease (ridge) may help your issue. I would also shim between the brace and hood to remove any movement but not until you get it straight.

What Phil said (better than me, BTW ). I had a similar crease on the back of my hood where the brace goes across. They're a bugger to get out but it can be done. Just takes patience.

Know what that is from??????? Someone jumped up and sat on the hood right in the middle of the support. Each side is a cheek.

My 66 hood has some waves. I compared to a friends truck which only has 25K miles and it second owner with every bit of documented work done to it. His hood has the same wave to it. Not exactly like yours as I think you have the perfect butt mark, but the colors they used hid the factory imperfections. I am going to end up skimming my hood cause I want it straight.

I’ll give it a whirl, fellas. I’m tackling cab transfer first, then I’ll do that. Will update.