 Which door to use, Early with dent vs Late with Speaker cut out |
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| jeffdon |
 May 21 2010, 11:48 AM
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So I am down to prepping the doors for paint.
I bought a pair of straight late style doors a while back, as I had to replace the passenger side door. They are very straight, with just a little tiny bit of rust. Bothw er cut for speakers by some idiot. Drivers door has some extra holes for a larger mirror mount, which should be easy to fill. I cut some inside metal from my old Pass. door and welded into the speaker hole. My plan was to keep using the early drivers door, as it was straight. Won't go into details, but i put a big dent in the upper part of the drivers door via some real stupidity. Figured no big deal, i have fixed worse. Pulled the seal and am seeing some nasty rust spots due to some dipshit siliconing the seal in. Sorry for poor pics. Below are two out of four rust spots on my early door, and the newer door. Which would you use? Save the old door and have mismatched doors? Or go with the straighter late door, weld in donor parts from my old one to close the hole, and have them match?    |
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| jeffdon |
May 23 2010, 11:34 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,094 Joined: 24-October 06 From: oakland, ca Member No.: 7,087 Region Association: None |
Shameless bump.
Can early style windows and regs be fitted to the late door? How can I ID late vs early tops? |
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| SirAndy |
May 23 2010, 11:56 AM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,694 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(jeffdon @ May 23 2010, 10:34 AM)  Can early style windows and regs be fitted to the late door? Sure. All you need is lots of time and money ... The the question is WHY? The late style window mechanism is far superior to the early style. If anything, you'd want to put late style regulators into an early door ... As far as the tops, there's a thread here somewhere outlining all the differences with lots of pictures etc. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) Andy |
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| jeffdon |
May 23 2010, 12:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,094 Joined: 24-October 06 From: oakland, ca Member No.: 7,087 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(SirAndy @ May 23 2010, 10:56 AM) QUOTE(jeffdon @ May 23 2010, 10:34 AM) Can early style windows and regs be fitted to the late door? Sure. All you need is lots of time and money ... The the question is WHY? The late style window mechanism is far superior to the early style. If anything, you'd want to put late style regulators into an early door ... As far as the tops, there's a thread here somewhere outlining all the differences with lots of pictures etc. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) Andy Why? So I can use my existing top. |
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| SirAndy |
May 23 2010, 12:10 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,694 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(jeffdon @ May 23 2010, 11:07 AM) Why? So I can use my existing top. It'll be much easier (and cheaper) to use the late doors and get a late top to match ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) Andy |
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Why? So I can use my existing top.
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