Door striker washers
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Door striker washers
The nylon on my door strikers plates has seen better days, so I have ordered NOS Ford replacements. I noticed on the existing strikers, the passenger side has a number of washers stacked up on top of each other while the driver's side has just one. Is this correct? Were these shimmed like this at the factory? The new ones only have one large washer.
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I've found that on the dents that the washers (OEM) don't unscrew like the later models. I've cut the original washers off and used HD flat washers in place of the original ones. Which looks like was done in the first picture.
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I just did this, and used the appropriate sized pex pipe, and works great, used blue so matches rest of truck, hold door super tight, and best of all cheap!
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Did you cut the washer off? If so, how? Just torch it?
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The washer sucked. I tried everything. I ended up putting the bolt and washer in a vice and pounding the bolt out. Then chased the threads quickly on one of them to clean them up. ON the other one I didn't bother chasing the threads just to see if I could get it back in, and it worked just fine. Probably not the best way, but it worked for me.
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Well I got the new striker bolts from Ford installed (complete part, not just the bushing) and I know why the passenger side was shimmed now....the door "drags" without them. On the new striker the door side latch will barely hit the bolt head of the striker plate unless the extra washers are installed to move the striker plate forward, toward the front of the vehicle. I played around with the up/down and inboard/outboard adjustment but only the shims to change the forward/rear positioning would correct it. Hopefully this makes sense. Not sure why this is the case because it's a virgin truck, no wrecks, and door gaps are perfect. But then again, these trucks weren't made to the closest tolerances. 
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