Re: [DMCForum] Driver's door alignment?

["Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>]

On most doors that I have adjusted, I find that the front of
the door dips down lower and needs to be adjusted higher.
I'm not sure if it can be corrected with a hinge adjustment.
It seems that the doors are twisted -- like they all were
made wrong.  Even doors that close like new refrigerators
still remain too low on the front.  Or is the fender & hood
too high?  One day I'm going to remove the glass and twist
the damn door into the shape that I think it needs to be.
The painted passenger door that came from Samuel's car can't
be made any worse. ;-)

Anyway, what I find that works for adjusting these doors is
to put a piece of tape over the latch pin and then close the
door gently over it.  If one side marks harder than the
other side then the pin needs to be moved.  The other trick
when moving these pins is to recognize the two main vectors
and not accidentally change one while adjusting the other.
Sometimes it helps to completely remove the front or rear
pin so that misplacement of it won't interfere with
adjusting the remaining pin.  It helps to figure out what is
going wrong when things are bent up from an accident.

I think that the only way to keep these pins from relocating
on their own is to cut away the plastic trim under it so
that the pin and the spacers behind hit rest on metal and
not plastic.  Later VINs were done this way.  Earlier VINs
like my 03633 are not.

Hope this helps, Misha,
Oh and sorry about not having any water here.  The tap water
tastes bad.  I was out of bottled water.  And since my Mom
lives a few blocks away, I usually run there for basic
necessities.

Walt

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