Hello All,
Does there exist an itemized door rebuild sequence that covers the reassembly of the entire door? Here's my problem - my problem, not the door's problem. My car restoration is almost completely finished and sitting on my four-post hoist in my garage. There's maybe a week of real work to do to get it on the road, but I'm stuck on one project that I can't bring myself to start - the reassembly of the doors. For months, the doors have been mounted and adjusted but they are sitting on the car completely empty. No handles, strikers, seals, cat's whiskers, windows, lifting mechanisms - nothing. During my restoration, particularly my one-man reassembly of the car after the body work, paint work and Metric engine rebuild was done, I had done and redone and redone so many mini-projects that I have become paranoid about assembling things out of order and having to disassemble and start over.
I've read the TM several times. It is an excellent manual and each mini-project is extremely well described. I've "choked" on the lack of a general order for the door assembly. I can find details of "how" to install things but don't know "when" to install things relative to the other things.
Has anyone written a primer on, "How I rebuilt my door from start to finish."
If I assembled the cat's whiskers, for example, and found that I had cut them too short, I would probably shoot myself. My paranoia is almost that bad. I know that my basic problem is that I'm getting too old to have started this restoration project in the first place, but it's too late to fix that problem.
Tom Kizer