PAGING Bob Jones.... help
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PAGING Bob Jones.... help
Bob,
Working on my 50 panel, and trying to hang the rear doors,,,
I removed all the hinges(over 1.5 years ago), and they all looked the same when i removed them.
Guess what 2 have got a slight curve to them, and 2 dont.
Problem, i cant figuire out which hinge sits in which position.
Got any clue?
Robert
Working on my 50 panel, and trying to hang the rear doors,,,
I removed all the hinges(over 1.5 years ago), and they all looked the same when i removed them.
Guess what 2 have got a slight curve to them, and 2 dont.
Problem, i cant figuire out which hinge sits in which position.
Got any clue?
Robert
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PAGING Bob Jones.... help
Robert,
I checked my rear door hinges and they seem to all have some degree of curve to them. I thinks this is from years of having the door swinging opening. The one thing I did notice is the the top hinges stick out farther from the surface of the door than the bottoms. The flap that mounts to the door frame, the part that has the curvature, is the same but the flap that is attached the door is different from top to bottom. I have posted pictures of my driver's side hinges at the following site: Hinges
If you have any other questions let me know and I'll try to answer them.
I checked my rear door hinges and they seem to all have some degree of curve to them. I thinks this is from years of having the door swinging opening. The one thing I did notice is the the top hinges stick out farther from the surface of the door than the bottoms. The flap that mounts to the door frame, the part that has the curvature, is the same but the flap that is attached the door is different from top to bottom. I have posted pictures of my driver's side hinges at the following site: Hinges
If you have any other questions let me know and I'll try to answer them.
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PAGING Bob Jones.... help
Originally posted by bobj49f2
Robert,
I checked my rear door hinges and they seem to all have some degree of curve to them. I thinks this is from years of having the door swinging opening. The one thing I did notice is the the top hinges stick out farther from the surface of the door than the bottoms. The flap that mounts to the door frame, the part that has the curvature, is the same but the flap that is attached the door is different from top to bottom. I have posted pictures of my driver's side hinges at the following site: Hinges
If you have any other questions let me know and I'll try to answer them.
Robert,
I checked my rear door hinges and they seem to all have some degree of curve to them. I thinks this is from years of having the door swinging opening. The one thing I did notice is the the top hinges stick out farther from the surface of the door than the bottoms. The flap that mounts to the door frame, the part that has the curvature, is the same but the flap that is attached the door is different from top to bottom. I have posted pictures of my driver's side hinges at the following site: Hinges
If you have any other questions let me know and I'll try to answer them.
and found the hinges with the greatest degree of curvature go on the top and the "flatter" hinges go on the botttom, and the doors close now, but they over lap at the edges in the center of the van, overlap by 1/16"... The door edges ( on the outer edges of the doors/ nearest the rear quarter panels have about 5/16" on each side.Since the van came from oregon, and the doors from north carolina, who knows which is tweaked more, (the door jambs or the doors), so plan for tonight is to heat the hinge that mounts on the jamb (in the vise) and to move (bend) it slightly, put on van, install doors, look, swear, have another pepsi, remove doors, remove hinge, put in vise , heat...... swear...
And repeat the above process untill they either look right, or i over heat the hinge and start looking for another to try it again....
Is it too late to find a PU body to put on my frame?
Thanks again bob for looking...
Robert
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The rear doors on my panel don't fit perfectly either. One door is from the original truck, the main truck,and the other is from the donor truck, the one I took the roof off of. Both doors hang lower than the ledge in the door opening. In all of the pictures I have seen and the panel trucks I have seen in person the doors have a 1/4", or about, all around the doors. Since my doors are in primer and have to have the bottom edges worked on I will bring the bottom edge up a bit.
These truck don't seem to have been engineered with the greatest precision anyway, nothing ever seems fit perfectly.
Good luck with your doors, let me know how it works out.
These truck don't seem to have been engineered with the greatest precision anyway, nothing ever seems fit perfectly.
Good luck with your doors, let me know how it works out.
