[james69z28]

nothing is bent or sagging, the problem is if you take 1 finger almost anywhere on the top of the hood it only takes a samll amount of pressure and the metal pops down quite a bit then when you release the pressure it pops back up ? way to light a pressure for it to collapse!
I am going to put the pads in and I am thinking about bending the inner braces upward towards the skin to tighten it?

it isn't like anyone sat on top of it it is just way too springy! I don't know but I am assuming that it would be flexing up and down a lot as the truck was being driven, but I have never had it drivable since I bought it about 50 % restored?

Thanks for any responses, this is how we all learn! Sorry my hood is a 1971.