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Door Fitting - A-Pillar Skin - Success

Jim_Gruber

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Who Hoo!, success. Driver's side door is not fit and attaches, door opens and closes with the correct thunk, gaps are right, sides are straight. After 3-4 days of futzing with this a couple of tips I can pass on.

1) If forward edge of the door is catching on the A- Post Edge it will slowly but surely bend it outward. Not much but each time you try to force it open it bends a little more, making it impossible to get the door fitted as you cannot jusdge that the skin edge has been tweaked.

2) A rubber mallet does not do the job it getting it straight

3) A hammer and block of wood a little more effective.

4) Best method, the <span style="font-weight: bold">good old adjustable box wrench</span>, adjust as small as possible, place over edge of A skin when door is contacting, apply sideways pressure up and down the edge in small increments. Boom door gap is fixed, edge now straight or curved slightly inwards depending on how the fit needs to be.

After a lot of frustrating days all is fixed.Still need to grind welds off on A-Pillar skin as it got a little tweaked with all of my frustrated efforts and I cracked the weld along the top of the skin.

I spent a lot of frustrated time trying to get this fixed, once it was all aligned it was easy but getting everything close enough to do the final tweaking major frustrating. Only one badly bruised first finger after end of door slipped off jack and got finger caught between edge of door and body of car. Dent in A Post Skin that needs to be fixed as well. Have Bondo will fix. Bruise will heal. Just glad it is done.
 

jlaird

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Jim, I hope you made sure you had enough room for primer and paint as well. Don't ask.
 
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Jack, Got that taken care of. Yes, BTDT, now good gaps all around. Got door lowered so not hitting on top front by windshield, that's a whole tricky area all by itself. Now door has good gaps and shuts with a good thunk and does not needed to be slammed hard to close. I'll send pics when I get a chance. Got to sow off the 3-4 day efforts and cogitating that needed to go on to make this right.
 

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Excellent. A good job is loved by all.
 
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