I have been having a lot of problems with my Passenger door. Sometime in the last 63 years, it was damaged around the hinge points, from what I would guess the door getting blown open. I attempted to repair the door, but it doesn't fit right and nothing I do helps. I tried swapping hinges around, using spacers, bending the door...with no luck.


I will be picking up a truckload of parts from Midwest Early ford on Sept 9th when they have their annual 10% off cash sale. I am looking at getting a replacement door. Has anyone on here used the replacement doors offered by Mid Fifty or Midwest Early Ford?


If fitment has been an issue with them it might not be worth the time getting one.


Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

 

are you sure its not the jam or A pillar before you buy a door

 

On my 52 my door at one point in it's life was "hyper extended" past where it should ever go. Someone attempted to adjust it (LOL) and it would shut but it was not right and as soon as you shut the door it would push out against the jamb(latch). You could see where the hinge had went so far past where it should that it damaged the cowl ever so slightly. My brother came down and he's a precision toolmaker/machinist so he loves to analyze this type of stuff. He felt that we needed to place a 1/4" to 1/2" block of wood in the jamb where the lower hinge is and a thinner one at the upper hinge (not tweaked as bad there). So basically you would be closing the door with a 3/8" (in my case) piece of wood between the door and hinge post thus forcing the door to pull the outer part of the hinge(part with the pin) away from the cowl, twisting the cowl post (where hinges are attached) back towards the door. Now mind you we didn't slam the door or anything like that but we did increase our wood thickness while somewhat bouncing the door on the wood block at the hinge. I don't know if you're still with me ( i guess i need pictures) but this actually worked so well that you cannot tell that my door or hinge and cowl were ever out of alignment, other than the paint scar and i have plenty other of those. The door shuts absolutely perfect now and the alignment is as perfect as it could have ever been. The point is that a new door(which i though i needed) would not have fixed this issue at all. The hinge side cowl post(is this the "A" post?) was tweaked ever so slightly and needed tweaked back into shape. The hinge was strong enough to do with the help of the wood block.

 

there is no damage to the "A" pillar, all the damage was to the door. I cut out what I could and I straightened out the rest as best as I could.


This isn't a very good pic, but it shows where I am having a problem.



the door above the mirror hole is recessed into the frame over 3/8". I've tried using wood blocks to try and massage the door into place with no luck. That is why I'm looking at replacing the door.

But if the replacement doors have fitment issues I will just have to live with it as it is.

 

Would you be better off buying a good used door?

 

indybeer I have 2 sets of pretty good shape doors I wont be using. I'm located near springfield il which I'm assuming isn't that far from you if you would rather have a used door? and could prlly spilt one of the pairs up