I repaired this about eight years and 25k miles ago and so far (touching
wood) it hasn't reappeared.
I used a plate inside the door skin, but didn't weld it, I screwed the door
mirror into it. The top went right up to the flange where the crack
started. The skin is curved, of course, but I put less of a curve in the
plate so it would press up under the flange and hopefully support it.
However, I feel the biggest difference was welding a small piece to the top
of the skin such that it extended the flange from where the glass is, round
the hole where the quarterlight 'leg' goes down. This part was just flat
and that is where the crack started. Subsequently I was looking at some
doors on a heritage shell and noticed that they also had this flange
extension.
I also made sure the quarterlight wasn't too heavily in contact with the
rubber down the side of the windscreen - just touching.
PaulH.
-----Original Message-----
From: Murch, Paul <murch@y-city.net>
To: tboicey@brit.ca <tboicey@brit.ca>
Cc: mgs@triumph.cs.utah.edu <mgs@triumph.cs.utah.edu>
Date: 10 January 1999 16:27
Subject: Re: "Crack of Doom"
>Trevor,
>
>Below is your treatment of the crack of doom from a while back, How
>about a progress report? Has this worked out? Any reapearance? Things
>that you would do differently?
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