Anyone else have cracks where the hood hinge bolts to the body? Wanting to gauge interest in a fix I designed for this. It's a 3/16" thick cold rolled steel part. Laser cut and deburred. Quality Hardware to be included. Requires two 3/8" holes to be drilled for each side. The kit will be 2 reinforcement plates, 8 flanged bolts, 4 flanged nuts, 8 washers, and an instruction sheet. I'm thinking $50 plus shipping. I'm need to see what the cheapest flat rate priority mailer I can fit everything into. I didn't post this in the classified section, because I'm not ready to sell. I can't afford to do a bunch of these unless I know that they will actually sell. @Mopar1973Man , if you are interested, I can send you a set of prototypes to review.

I would love to do a product review for you. PM going to be sent.

VERY nice looking work BFH. I will be taking a close look at my hood hinges in that area and may be placing an order. 👍

Right now, it's my design that I'm having laser cut by a 3rd party. That's why I'm wanting a to get a feel for demand. I'm certainly not going to make a fortune on these, but I need enough volume to be able to make a little cash. I'm trying to pay down some bills, so working on some side projects. If I can sell 15 or 20 of these kits, then I can make a bit of money on them. I do the deburring myself. They will be bare steel so they can be easily paint matched to the truck. Also, the two additional holes are sized exactly 3/8" so the plates can be used as a drill guide. 3/8" allows for a little wiggle room for 8mm bolts, so if alignment isn't perfect, there's still a little room for adjustment. I'll upload a picture of just the plate tomorrow. I forgot to get a picture.

Reinforcement plates. This is how they will ship. Edges cleaned up and smoothed. Sharp edges all knocked off.

For installation, 2 new holes have to be drilled. They need to align with the "channel" in the hinge. The bracket is used as a drill guide. It will fit a 3/8 drill perfect. Reuse the one long bolt in the lower hole and a shorter bolt in the upper. A piece of masking tape works good to hold the nut on an open end wrench when installing the bolts in your drilled holes.