Now one more thing that's pretty important: the hood latch for the new 2004 Tacoma hood that I have going on. I measured my neighbors newer hood latch location and it's the same as my older Taco so I put on my old hood and started to scratch my head.
Here is a shot looking upward from the bottom with the latch on the hood receiver so I could see where it needed to be secured when shut.
If you look closely you can see the chalk marks I made to show just where the steel taps would need to be welded in place. The tabs need to be about 9/16 away from the tubing and I trimmed some excess steel off the latch a little bit to make it fit in place better. It's very hard to describe all the small tricks I used to make it fit exactly where it needed to go, sorry.