Re: slight door adjustment necessary?

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

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.