What is the Difference in 67-72 doors
 

I have heard alot of people want 72 doors on thier trucks.....what is the difference in the doors from 67 to 72....is their any advantage??

from what i understand (which is little) ...72 doors have a screw below the wing window handle that holds the door together better ... its common for these doos to want to seperate over time

The 72 doors also have different door panels and arm rests and different window mechanisms. I think the outer door skins are the same though.

To the best of my knowledge, the '72 doors only difference is in the way the door panel attaches to it. The shells are otherwise the same. I have one of each but have never had the door panels off. :confused:
I also think the armrest mounting holes are higher....?

I just stumbled across something actually. Go to the homepage of this website, click on tech articles, then click on "door interchangeability" and there you have it!

Can you buy the bolts that go in the 72 doors, or is there some better way to plug the hole?


DR

Which holes? The armrest mounting holes?

There are a couple of differences in the doors, although the 72 door does bolt onto the 67-71 trucks without issues. The 72 doors are set up for the plastic door panels witch use plastic clips and 1 screw about half way up the back side of the door panel to attach it. The 67-71 doors are set up for interior panels that need an upper trim peice that is held in place with 4 screws to hold the top of the door panel in place and also have 4 machined screws that pass through the door panel, and into 4 little 1/4" nuts that hold the bottom in place. The nuts them selves are mounted into a little clip that attaches to the door. Then there is the obviouse difference, and that is the upper screw hole for the screw that supports the top of the window channel near the vent window assembly. We now carry both style doors fot the pickups, panels, suburbans, and blazers, for anyone who is interested. Same cost for both styles. By the way the arm rest holes are the same. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

Isn't the window regulator different on a 72? I think the shaft is longer to go through the plastic panel.

Yes the inner door and window regulator shafts are longer in a 72 door because of the deeper plastic door panel a 72 has.

Heres a link to my tech post from years back.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/tech/doors.html

Perhaps I should edit it a little ands update it... Wes had some other points that should be useful in there also.

The hole I was referring to is the one just below the vent window, I read that there was some kind of J-bolt that goes there.


DR

Yeah the j-bolt is on the 72 door only... it reinforces the area of the vent window... if you look at enough doors you qwill see that some developed a crack near the vent window area from the stresses of opening the vent window forceably. all the years of twisting has had its effect.