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| FL000 |
 Apr 1 2018, 10:26 PM
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After many years of my car on jack stands slowly doing body work and painting it, I am finally near the end and reinstalling everything I took off. I was bummed to see that my passenger side door gap was too tight once I had the car back on it's wheels and fully loaded. Not sure if it was like that years ago when I began, or if it happened along the way.
Either way I decided to try the inner long reinforcement kit, and started with the passenger side. Had my car jacked up and stands placed appropriately to get the gap I wanted, welded it in nice and slow, got it back on the ground and under weight the gap disappeared to what it was previously (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) . I have not welded in the driver side or rear reinforcement yet, and don't really plan to in the immediate future since I don't think it will help my situation. I want to fix my gap with the least invasive procedure. So I guess the questions are: 1) Is it possible welding in the driver side and rear reinforcement may help? Again the driver gap is perfect without it. 2) Would the outer long reinforcement kit help this situation? 3) Any other method I am overlooking that may fix this? Appreciate your comments. Gap on ground  Where it is rubbing  Car jacked up, stand under rear support. Doesn't look much better in this pic, but the gap is large enough to prevent the rubbing.  |
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| dr914@autoatlanta.com |
Apr 3 2018, 02:29 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,154 Joined: 3-January 07 From: atlanta georgia Member No.: 7,418 Region Association: None |
we had the same problem recently, car came to us sagging, someone had welded in the rocker clamshell kit, but neglected to repair the longitudinal so both doors were hitting the quarter panels.
The frame box gives the914 strength and if the box is not strong the car will sag. This one was especially rusted at the usual breaking point, the lower seat belt bolt. As the car was (and is) rough and not worth repairing properly, we patched it, using our longitudinal repair section to patch. We supported the car with a good door gap and welded the car back together, and are now patching the floor pan for the guy. He will have a strong driver, but nothing great.     |
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FL 000 Inner Long Reinforcement Apr 1 2018, 10:26 PM
rjames How bad is the rust along the outer longs? Pics? Apr 1 2018, 11:13 PM
FL 000
How bad is the rust along the outer longs? Pics?
... Apr 2 2018, 07:14 PM r_towle gap, on the ground, is perfect without the inner l... Apr 1 2018, 11:31 PM FL 000
gap, on the ground, is perfect without the inner ... Apr 2 2018, 07:21 PM mepstein
gap, on the ground, is perfect without the inner... Apr 3 2018, 05:39 AM whitetwinturbo :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: Apr 2 2018, 09:15 PM dlee6204
How bad is the rust along the outer longs? Pics?... Apr 3 2018, 06:27 AM SirAndy Something isn't adding up. You would not get ... Apr 3 2018, 02:02 PM gothspeed Even the gap when on jack stands looks too narrow ... Apr 3 2018, 10:11 AM burton73 It looks like you have big rear fenders? What was ... Apr 3 2018, 02:18 PM FL 000 Ok I think I have a better handle on this now, or ... Apr 3 2018, 10:13 PM dr914@autoatlanta.com PORTA power is not the way to do it, if the car i... Apr 4 2018, 08:45 AM r_towle Try something less dramatic first.
Remove the fron... Apr 4 2018, 07:43 AM |
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