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Really nice job, hows the fitment between the factory stuff?? Ron
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I noticed the middle body line is not in line with the cab and the bottom of the door is not flush with the rocker. It's hard to tell in the pics what is exactly going on.
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Alan as we had discussed, I had noticed the body line on that side is a little off.
I think the bottom will be fine, the bottom hinge needs to be pushed in some. But there again what do I know, that's not my department. I'm just a Landscaper / Builder :lol: Anyway what a deal I got 300 bucks and furnished material. Thanks Alan for your valuable input ;) Quote:
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198 and Alan,
Doors look good. and I see where you guys are talking about the body line is off, but the lower body line looks to be okay. Alan, How do you fix one with out messing up the other one's alignment? just curious. |
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That's what I'm thinking :lol:
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Remember guys - if you can't fix it with a beater, it's an electrical problem. ;)
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I am a body work beginner and I have to say that looks like an incredibly hard problem. For the most part the door aligns ok, it just looks like a bad stamp job on the door at the factory. Looking forward to the experts weighing in on this one!
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Probably not a bad stamp, just fit a certain truck. I have a donor door on mine and the stamp is a little off too. It probably fit the original truck it was on perfectly. The chrome trim holes are off a little too, but probably fit the original fine. I think there were different measurements going on at different build plants back in the day. They got em close enough.
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In those days it was just a truck, and they were put together very crude. Like on my truck the seam above the windshield is much bigger on the right side than the left side, and the door gaps are really bad. As far as it looks like my truck is all original.
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quit stealing my sig quote :sumo: ;) Quote:
they had an allowable range for the fitment of the pieces and panels...if you look in the assembly manual it tells the tolerances....as strodder said, they were only trucks so the tolerances were fairly large :banghead: probably depended lot on the different assembly guys....we all know how that goes :rolleyes: |
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except the bottom, it has a 1/4" gap..... |
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great job Allen! Read the whole thing thru..at $17.75 an hr......shhhhh!
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Or Monday morning......
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I took my old 12 bolt rear end out tonight....411 gears and replaced it with another 12 bolt rear end I had with 373 gears and swapped out the trailing arms while I was at it.
I'm getting to old to be doing this crap by myself :banghead: |
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what is old?
ron |
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Hell I'm 52....My brain thinks it's in the twenty's, but my body feels like it's 80 :whine:
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