I was off road and hit a ditch deep enough to catch my front bumper at a pretty good rate of speed. So it put a nice ding in the bumper and push the fender back about an 1" which inturn jammed the door which like an idiot I opened! So now I have a fender that is bent in where it meets the door and a door that is bent where it meets the fender.....

So the questions, is the fender an all bolt on panel? I was looking at the body parts from broncograveyard.com and they have a door shell, is that just the metal frame that i can put all the parts in from my current door?

 

Fender bolts right on, easy on, easy off, once you take the headlight and headlight surround off. The door comes off two ways - you can pop the pins in the hinges and replace it that way, or take off the bolts that attach the hinge to either the door or the cab. Either way.

 

Thanks, good to hear! Just to be sure, the door "shell" is a bolt on replacement. It's not a skin right?

Might be trying my first paint job too. I am really a nissan Z car nut and a buddy in our local club has a painting facility so I'm going to practice on the truck before I do my 91 300ZX! I'm Sorry anyone who thinks it should be the other way around

 

Door shell is what you want!

 

Having just replaced both fenders and doors on my '89 due to excessive body rot, my advice is to not only take pictures and/or notes to the sequence of removal of the fenders (lots of little screws) and also plan on having to take the fenders off again to re-align the doors.

I thought I had the doors right on the money, and I did, but the new fenders (a near perfect set from an '87), were just slightly different and I had to nudge the doors again. Unfortunately, it's not that easy with the fenders on, so i took measurements and made reference marks with a sharpie, removed the fenders and tweaked the doors. Even after installling the fenders, I still had to do a bit of nudging of where the fender meets the windshield pillar. That said, it wasn't all that tough of a job. You could knock it out in an afternoon.

 

Thanks guys for all the info!! That's great news.