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You are ALL WELCOME to my shop for a few beers anytime !

Started the day off with a trip to a car show and ended up doing a little bit on the truck.
1 st pic shows the difference between the doors, a little closer look reveals the left door had been crunched at some point in its life.

2nd pic is my alignment tabs for the roof.


auto focus seem to be having troubles.

Where is Selma, just in case your close by I need to know.
Then I could come over and steal some ideas from you HE! HE! HE!
Looks like you do some of everything there.
Kurt

Originally Posted by vara4

Where is Selma, just in case your close by I need to know.
Then I could come over and steal some ideas from you HE! HE! HE!
Looks like you do some of everything there.
Kurt

Selma is just north of San Antonio, Tx. My shop is in Seguin, Tx. east of San Antonio about 30 miles.

Nobody has to steal any ideas from me I'll give them to anybody who wants them.

Kurt: Where is Pahrump ??

So if you have glass in the short door, when you roll it up how does the fit seem? Wondering if you could push up the upper channel a 1/4" and fix the gap, as well as get the window to have a proper seal?

Originally Posted by stovens

So if you have glass in the short door, when you roll it up how does the fit seem? Wondering if you could push up the upper channel a 1/4" and fix the gap, as well as get the window to have a proper seal?

Yup that's exactly what I'm going to do. My old auto body buddy told me how to do it without screwing up the door skin. at least it will be closer.

Cool keep us posted!

Nice work on the door. One thing I thought of, is as that cab rusted the cab could have settled and someone back in time could have massaged the top of the door down one way or another so the door would still shut and hot hit the drip rail. Just a thought. The repair is looking great!

The door sucks, more troubles than was ever seen before. I was able to pull up the window frame 1/4 inch but there's more trouble with it. I'm posting pic's of both sides and I think they'll tell the story. In the end it will work til I find another or at least another upper part of a door that I can graft on .
right side


left side

right side


left side

I would say you have your work cut out for you..Any chance in finding another door? maybe out west?

I was thinking maybe add a shim or extension to the window regulator base on the glass where it mounts would work? Might also just chase the problem farther out of whack.

Originally Posted by stovens

I was thinking maybe add a shim or extension to the window regulator base on the glass where it mounts would work? Might also just chase the problem farther out of whack.

Nope that won't work. The window is hitting the frame at the sides due to the door being out of shape. The glass is plenty tall the hole is just to small. Another door will come along someday. Thanks for your input !

Todays activity was centered around roof repair. The roof had a dent with a slight crease in it. I ended up cutting the inside panel open to knock out the dent. It's about as good as I can get it, the inside panel just is really in the way to do lots of dolly work. At this point it's less than 1/16 depth off at any point. I hoping that's good enough. I have NO body work knowledge so feel free to chime in here.


This next picture shows the back of the roof and as you can it has many little dent's, flat spots. I'm thinking rubber hammer or steel with dolly to try to push them out. Maybe lead the in ?

What is a reasonable thickness for bondo ?

Have you ever seen a stud gun before? I'd recommend going and hetting one. It's a valued body tool IMO. It will weld studs to the sheet metal so you can put a puller on the stud and pull dents out. Here's one just for an idea.

Stud Welder Dent Repair Kit

I'm the furthest thing from a body guy but, Robert (MP&C) has a good idea (I think) with the use of a pvc pipe end cap to backup the metal and allows the metal to move and not get stretched between a dolly. He has some threads on here, the latest was a tri 5 chevy roof.

That roof is going to take time and patience. But that's the fun right?!?!

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