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Guys, had to cut the old hinge out due to it being totally rusted and now am faced with welding the new piece in.
Bought this piece from Denis Carpenter and it seems pretty good, though the hinged area looks a little flimsy, the actual frame is made of reasonable steel.
Of course, like an ignoramus, I cut a tad too much steel off the new piece and now it's a couple of mm too short. The plan is to slide some copper plate behind the weld
and weld this new section on.
Tell you what, I am sh*****g bricks over this as the alignment has to be super spot on. I have measured the distance between the centre bolts from one hinge to the other on the side I haven't tampered with, so
I should just match that with the new piece and theoretically the hinge should mate up with the door when I fit it up.
Wish me luck!
I have to pull the rocker panel in a bit to get this bottom section to sit flush. I think I'll do this after I get that hinge piece centred and tack welded
Reading through the post I was going to respond the same as Effie. Tack everything together and test fit all the parts for correct fitment before final welding. It will save a whole lot of heartache later.
Good news guys. It lined up fine. Fitted door up pretty well, but still early days. Once rubber seal is fitted and door latch etc, then we'll see, but at least the hinges lined up.
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