Couldnt seemed to get thsi worded right in the search to find any pages but my side skirt is getting torn up due to the small tabs on the door filler skirt. MY painter is going to patch up the spots where it has hit and when we were looking at it he said i could probaly just cut teh end of the tab off and it would stop it. THe door hinges are still in good shape and seem solid so will thsi stop it and will it mess with the structural integrity of teh gfx at all. I figured it wont but want to oduble check.


What its doign to my rocker panel skirt.

 

Excuse the dirt its been windy so everything is dusty and today teh weather went stupid and decided to rain a hole hell ova lot.

Heres where i want to cut it off. Not all the way back to the rivit but just so hopefully it will tuck up against eh door skin so it wont drag.. Thanks

 

come on someone must have done it?

 

i had the same prob. it was like that when i bought the car it was doing that cause my door was off about a 1/4 of an inch so i reset the door and it no longer scrapes the only suggestion i have is that you check to see if you door is off a little bit

 

Correct. Even though your pins may be in good shape, the door hinges themselves are out of alignment or are bent. A jack and a 2X4 fixed mine after a heavy friend *hung* on the door.

 

my door does that as well. I have couple lil scrapes i hate it.

 

I had the pins replaced and the doors shut better instead of having to open and reshut and they also stopped scraping.

 

if i'm not mistaking isn't there a tech artical on door bushing replacement to set your door right so it doesn't droop... droop may = the scrapping problem that your are having. i have the same problem and i know my door is droopy.

 

REplacing them isnt bad i have done alot of pin and bushing replacements. I ran a strip of masking tape across the door and when i shut it it was getting torn. I went under and cut off teh little tabs so tehy sit up inside the space between the bracket and door put a strip of tape again and it no longer catches. The doors arent drooping at all and they are in perfect alignment so problem is solved.

 

I have new pins for my door, but my question is has anyone done this before and how did you compress the springs? I have not figure out a way to compress them to remove for the pin replacement. Any ideas?

 

To compress the springs you need a spring compresor. Without it its a pita, not very safe, and will be almost imposible to get the spring back in after its out. TDS sells spring compressors. Thats where I got mine along with my new hinge pins and stuff. Great service and fast shipping There is a link to their webiste at the top of the page.

 

I would trim them up and fix the pins.

 

Mike, thanks for the help. Do you have a link to TDS?

 

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