Door alignment issues

[dicer]

Wow thats almost a perfect fitting task force door. The doors and how they close are not the high points of these trucks.

[hammerdog57]

Originally Posted by dicer

Wow thats almost a perfect fitting task force door. The doors and how they close are not the high points of these trucks.

Pictures are decieving. Door latch is maxed out on adjustment and pulls door down to latch.

[55metalmonkey]

I'm having/ had much the same issue with mine (1 done 1 to go), the only real difference is that I had to rebuild and re-skin the lower half of my doors so they would be slightly different than an original virgin door, the only way I got mine anywhere close to what I see as a good gap was to rebuild the hinge so it is fairly snug (new hinges would have been better) then set the door in the opening and loosened off the hinge bolts so I could adjust the door in the pocket. Then I temporarily shimmed with small wood wedges around the inside so that the gap was as close to perfect as I could get. It took a while and a few tries to learn how the door would sag once the wedges were removed. It also took 2-3 times of removing the hinges and filing the elongated hole so that I could get the hinge bolts to sit where they needed to. The gap was still crap BTW but much better and the door sat higher where the front corner of the door meets the edge of the cowl but that will have to be fixed with a little filler I also had to add a couple of panel shims to the upper hinge in an effort to tilt the top edge of the door back. the next step I did was to take the worst part of the gaps and tack in 1/8 or 3/32 welding rod on the edge for the larger gaps and grind where it is too tight then capping the ground spot with mig tacks and grind flush, this is the add & shave steps that OrrieG eluded to. It was a massive PITA to do and in hind sight hardly worth it but the whole point of my truck project is to teach my kid how things can be done, overall it does fit nice, now I just have to get the other side to match
Keep in mind that this is possibly the hardest, labor intensive and most anal way to do it, others around here might have a bit more experience with easier ways to get the same results

I have seen a few posts on the subject but I'm not sure if it's on this forum or possibly on another I read once in a while, when I get more time I'll see if I can find it (if your interested) I would post a few pics of my result but my camera crapped out and my project is on hold for a couple weeks (bath room renos to keep wife happy)

[hammerdog57]

I have another door i am going to try this weekend. Hopefully it will fit better.

[mbgmike]

Good Luck, Doors take much more time than any other body part on a car or truck. like Orrie said about the doors staying shut. I rode in these trucks when I was little. Several times I was grabbed on turns when I was falling out. No kid seats back then