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I have had the doors, fenders, hood, bumper, etc... off my car now for years from a fresh spray of paint.
I am just getting to put body panels back on the car again, now that the motor/tranny is back in.
I had replaced the upper door hinges with AndyZ28's greasable hinge pins, and I replaced the lower hinge pin/bushings, I also got a whole new GM lower hinge for the driverside door. The fenders are brand new GM fenders (my rear end is still soar).
I have installed the passenger door, and the back and bottom of the door look like it lines up OK to the body. When I loosly put the fender on, the top of the fender sticks out further than the door by quite a bit. I tried wiggleing the fender around to see if the slotted mounting holes would give me the correction needed, but it just doesn't seem to be enough.
The bottom fender mount between the door and the wheel was originally crushed by someone who didn't know the jacking locations, I had the shop who painted the car straighten the mounting point out. i understand I still have some tweeking I can do with this point, but it still doesn't seem it would be effective enough. The fender lines up good with the door at the lower half other than the fender maybe being a touch too high, this I can see adjusted with the lower mount.
The upper half of the fender/door is where I don't know what to do.
Is it possible to have shim/spacers behind the upper body side door hinge to have the upper half of the dooor stick out more? or is there another adjustment I should look at?
I have had the doors, fenders, hood, bumper, etc... off my car now for years from a fresh spray of paint.
I am just getting to put body panels back on the car again, now that the motor/tranny is back in.
I had replaced the upper door hinges with AndyZ28's greasable hinge pins, and I replaced the lower hinge pin/bushings, I also got a whole new GM lower hinge for the driverside door. The fenders are brand new GM fenders (my rear end is still soar).
I have installed the passenger door, and the back and bottom of the door look like it lines up OK to the body. When I loosly put the fender on, the top of the fender sticks out further than the door by quite a bit. I tried wiggleing the fender around to see if the slotted mounting holes would give me the correction needed, but it just doesn't seem to be enough.
The bottom fender mount between the door and the wheel was originally crushed by someone who didn't know the jacking locations, I had the shop who painted the car straighten the mounting point out. i understand I still have some tweeking I can do with this point, but it still doesn't seem it would be effective enough. The fender lines up good with the door at the lower half other than the fender maybe being a touch too high, this I can see adjusted with the lower mount.
The upper half of the fender/door is where I don't know what to do.
Is it possible to have shim/spacers behind the upper body side door hinge to have the upper half of the dooor stick out more? or is there another adjustment I should look at?
Any help/advice is appreciated.
Thanks
my passenger side is out of whack as well. i hope someone replies that knows. i would be interested to know as well good luck.
__________________ 1986 Camaro Iroc-Z 350 TPI Corvette motor 700r4 trans, BMR strut tower brace,BMR adj.Panhard Rod,Energy Sway Bar links,Eibach Pro Kit,J&M street lower control arms,Accel Distributer,wires.Blacked out all lights.5% Limo tint all the way around.
its damaged and you need to tweek it. it takes some pulling and pushing but you can get the thing back in line so the fender fits well.
and while you have it apart put in some subframe connectors.
What could be damaged? The fenders are brand new GM fenders from the GM dealer that cost $300 PER SIDE. There should not be anything wrong with these fenders, I forked up the cash so I didn't have to deal with some of the things I hear come about from aftermarket fenders. The fenders were left in their original pakaging right up until they were sprayed, then they were babied in moving blankets.
If I have to "tweek" the fenders (which I am not to excited to think about), will that damage the paint, cause cracking, etc.? What do you do, just pull at it from different angles till it sits right against the door?
Subframe connectors are the first thing on the list after I get it running to bring to a shop to weld on.
I had the same problem with my first Camaro what I ended up doing was slotting out the fender holes but the kicker may be when you get the fender where you need it and put the hood on watch for clearance there.
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