Re: Door alignment

Posted by Marty or Marston On 2018/3/26 18:49:19

On my '32 901 (4 door sedan) the wood sill that the body sits on needed to be replaced. I've aligned the doors several times since I put everything together. I'm guessing that this has been due to things settling in and to the multitude of times the car has been jacked up so I could have the pleasure of rolling underneath it to work on issues.

As I'm sure you are aware, there are 5 bolts on each side the mount the body to the frame. It was not intuitive (to me at least) as to which bolt area need to be raised or lower a touch to get the door to move in the direction you want it to go. One might think that lowering the center post (bolt #3, as #1 is at the front under the cowl) might in your case get the door gap in your middle photo (DSCN3037.JPG) to decrease. I think you will find this is not the case.

You don't mention if the body still is sitting on the original material that it was mounted with, but I'm guessing that it still. My suggestion to you would be to replace it with new. When you do so, take the time on one of the sides to loosen a bolt and watch which way the door moves when you slightly move the point up in order to get a feel for. If there are shims present at a bolt you will want will want to see that it goes back in to the same point.

While you have seats and floor boards out of the car, make sure that you make sure the Bijur oiling points are not plugged and that the metering valves are OK Replace lines with new where ever needed.