Rattling doors
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there's a plastic sleeve on the striker bolt that breaks off over time. there is a kit you can buy in the help section of your auto parts store. you remove the stricker, replace the sleeve, then insatl the striker, and adjust it til the door closes right. might also want to look at replaceing the weatherstrip around the door, as when it wears, it allows the door to come in too far, and air to come in while you are going down the road
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Those are all possibilities, but I will tell you how I accidentally fixed the door rattling problem on my 80. I had taken the bed off and was replacing the frame crossmembers with ones I got from a junkyard frame. You can't tell it by looking at it, but the crossmember under the rear of the cab had rusted out right beneath the large rubber bushings that support the cab. You can see the perfectly round hole that was beneath the bushing in this picture. This is actually the "new" crossmember I was installing, so I had to patch it.
That large round hole is actually supposed to be about 1/2" diameter, not 3 inches in diameter. When I got all this fixed, like magic the doors didn't rattle anymore. Apparently the whole back part of the cab was bouncing up and down.
That large round hole is actually supposed to be about 1/2" diameter, not 3 inches in diameter. When I got all this fixed, like magic the doors didn't rattle anymore. Apparently the whole back part of the cab was bouncing up and down.
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