31 roadster doors success

sphooch

sphooch

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:)THE BLOWN AWAY DOORS ARE BACK : thanks for all the help out there guys, I received alot of ideas on how to fix my door gap but the one that did the trick was the fella who suggested using a block of wood to persuade the door into the proper position . If you read this thank you. I never thought to do that , I was only reading about using shims. Now its a matter of tweaking the latches and I hope i'm good to go. this is my 1st time doing this and its a lot of fun. and when we new commers get frustrated we have the BARN to come to. thanks THE HOOCH :)
 
sphooch said:
:)THE BLOWN AWAY DOORS ARE BACK : thanks for all the help out there guys, I received alot of ideas on how to fix my door gap but the one that did the trick was the fella who suggested using a block of wood to persuade the door into the proper position . If you read this thank you. I never thought to do that , I was only reading about using shims. Now its a matter of tweaking the latches and I hope i'm good to go. this is my 1st time doing this and its a lot of fun. and when we new commers get frustrated we have the BARN to come to. thanks THE HOOCH :)
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could you explain exactly what you did, I didn't really understand the original advice....
 
Probably used the block of wood against the sill plate as a fulcrum and "formed" the lower part of the door closer to the body when closed. JMO
Paul in CT
 
here is what I did. I had a gap of 1-2 in. at the top of the door were the latch hits the strike plate, all of my attempts to fix this with shims failed, so by placing a block of wood at the bottom of the door were the door touched the body [about 4 in. up from the belt line ] I pushed in at the top a couple times and it cured the problem. the spacing at the hinges was not affected problem solved. THE HOOCH
 
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