door alignment help please.

[jlaird]

I was wondering if you guys could give me some help on aligning my door. This is the first time I've ever done this, so I'm kind of stumped at what I should do next. I have the rocker in with just two sheetmetal screws at this point, but that actually looks really good so I'm not worried about that.

1. OK, my first issue is with the A-pillar. As you can see in the picture, the door a-pillar is not sitting flush the cab A-pillar. At the top left corner it comes out. Rear door to cab and door to rocker all sit flush, so I'm guessing something got tweaked at some point. Also these are not the doors that are original to the cab. What I have in my mind to fix this is to make a couple slits in the door pillar to lean it back. Is this a good idea or not? I also need to know how far the pillar is supposed to come out in relation to the cab. Is it supposed to be flush or should it sit back a little? On the cab there is that lip that comes out a little and i'm not sure if the door is supposed to be flush with this or if it should sit slight back from it.

2. Second problem is the upper right corner of the door to cab is really tight compared to everything else.(see picture) I feel like I have it as close as I can get it, however the gap at the rear of the door is 3/8" which I'm thinking is too big. But moving the whole door rearward is not an option because of the problem in the corner mentioned above. I have no idea what to do with this problem.

3. Last problem is the bottom of the door is bowed about a 12" length.(see picture with straight edge) My buddy said to use a shrinking hammer to fix it. Is that what I should do?

Hopefully most of this makes sense. I would REALLY appreciate any help. I also wanted to mention that the cab is on a wood dolly. Am I asking for trouble by not having the cab on the frame?