Re: (sorry, wrong) Re: [DML] door adjustment

["Dan RC30" <Danrc30@xxxx>]

Bob. It's a shame that you had to go what you went through. I do believe 
that it is possible for that to happen, but I doubt it's common. I'm sure 
that a few cars left the factory with the carrier not properly installed. My 
original statement was for the 'masses'.... most won't have this happen to 
them. All I was trying to state was that the cars were not designed with the 
idea that if the peg is removed, the bolt assembly will fall into the 
pontoon. However, it doesn't suprise me that some cars left the factory with 
this defect. Maybe it was a problem on earlier cars that was fixed as 
production went on? I don't know. I was just speaking from my own experience 
regarding this issue. If mine didn't fall in, it was obviously designed that 
way.

---Dan Vin#5493



> I removed the door pin on the passenger side of my D because the door was 
> not
> aligned properly from the day it was built. Sure enough the nut dropped 
> into
> the hole in the fiberglass side. I had to remove the inside cover over the
> speaker. and cut a 3 inch hole into the fiberglass to get my hand in to 
> find
> the nut and hold it in place for the door peg. Afterwards. I drill an 
> 8/32
> hole and threaded it so I could put a long small screw in the plate to hold 
> it
> if I ever needed to remove the peg again.
>
>
> As it turned out the housing for the door peg was set 1/4 off when molding 
> the
> fiberglass at the factory. I had to cut the adjustment plate to give more
> movement in order for the door to lock properly. Initially it would only
> single latch and not double latch. This took many hours to correctly 
> diagnosis
> and realign.
>
>
> Bob

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