Help Needed on Door Alignment Issue

[dz1087]

Okay fellers, need a little help with how to proceed on this. I had to remove and replace the entire floor, rockers, cab corners and the front and rear pillar bottoms on my 71. Today I hung the passenger door to get the rocker in the correct place. After I got the rocker tack welded in place for the test fit, I noticed something was wrong with the front to rear alignment of the rocker vs. the new floor.



A little hard to tell, but the back edge of the rocker to inner rocker alignment is off. The front (right of pic) is 3/16 of an inch closer to the inner rocker than the rear. The result is this:



No, the door is not completely level with the body line, but it would definitely not fix how far out the cab corner is from the door in the closed position. Of note in that photo, the upper part of the door around the handle is flush with the body as it should be, so this is the ‘closed’ position.



So, I think what happened here is that when I welded the lower B pillar back on, I either welded it too far in, or got the angle slightly off so it has pushed this part of the cab corner out too far.

What are my options here to get that alignment a little closer? I’m thinking I might have to cut the B pillar and take some of the material out. I’ve outlined where I would cut in this pic:



Is that correct, or is there something I’m not seeing here? Any way to do this without cutting in to the B pillar again? Bend the corner of the door out a bit?