Thanks for the feedback on this -- I'll move slowly on this one if at all.
I've certainly got bigger fish to fry anyway...
Dwayne
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale [mailto:tpdwinch@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:47 PM
To: 6pack@autox.team.net; Dwayne Cooper
Subject: Re: Door Alignment
> Dwayne,
I agree with Bob on this, I to have in the last
few month's put the doors back on. All my body
panels match to the lines where they need to be.
It appears that either the stamping-s over time
got a little out of alignment or weren't that
good to begin with.
I finally settled on having all my horizonals
match and left the verticals have the odd gaps.
Dale
>
> It's funny you should mention this. I'm in
> process of putting my TR
> back together after a frame off restoration.
> I've had a devil of a time
> re-hanging the passenger door. I've played
> around with the shims
> holding the rear end of the body to the frame
> and have had limited
> success in evening up the gap. It's even more
> difficult when you're
> trying to align the front edge of the doors to
> the A-post.
>
> The only advice I can give you is to make sure
> that the door is hanging
> properly at the A-post before messing with the
> rear of the body. Be
> careful, because shimming up one side of the
> rear part of the body more
> than the other side will cause more of the rear
> of the frame to show
> underneath the valance and may make it look
> unbalanced.
>
> I don't know how one gets those door gaps
> perfect - it may not be
> possible. We may just have to settle for
> close enough.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Bob Kraeuter
> '72
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