You will have to try experimenting with the adjustment of the anchor pins. When you close the door and slam it, it crushes the door seals. Depending on how tight you crush the seals it may make it harder to open the door. It could be the seals are hard and you are closing too tight, you may need new door seals before you can properly adjust the anchor pins. The torsion bar and the strut don't have a whole lot to do with this as much as the anchor pins holding tight against the door seals. Do not try to compensate for worn door seals by closing the door tighter against them. Also make sure the head of the anchor pin is not hitting the edge of the door. If you have to, remove washers to keep the head from hitting, the latch should only capture the side of the pin, the top of the head shouldn't rub, the sides of the head should not even hit the guide. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Soma576@xxxx wrote: > List, > > last fall i had my pass side torsion bar tightened by one spline. of course > i first checked my struts which were ok. this caused the pass side door to > open just like the driver's side, all the way up. this winter while working > on the car i was having a little difficulty closing the pass side door all > the way because for one reason or another the second final latch latch on the > rear of the door was having a tough time engaging. i figured it was just the > cold. well now that the car is out and it is spring, the door closes > perfectly every time however i am having trouble opening the door.