In over 40 years of dropping engines into Mopars, I have never once removed a hood.
The distance between the core support and fully opened hood is exactly enough to get a fully dressed engine through.
It's designed that way
That does not work well with transmission attached, and the one time I pulled the engine alone, I had to be VERY careful about the chain length to the 'picker. Yeh, it kinda works, but it is close
