Hood Adjustment 68 Dart

You don't adjust the hood with the latch, all that will do is cause the hood to:

be hard to open
be hard to latch
pop to the side when you release the latch

Or all three.

How is it at the cowl? You can't really have it good on both sides and off at the front or back unless the fenders or the front end is swung over.

not true, its not uncommon for the hinges to be more to one side than the other, we are talking factory tolerances here. Something that can help is to open the hood, then push near the hinges towards the other fender. a couple shoves and it will move it over.