Door Gaps

For those people who have had issues getting the door gaps right when they try and fit new doors, this may be of interest.

As I have the time to get the panel gaps right on this car, I've had to do a bit of tedious work to ensure the door gaps look good.

I just thought this method up on the fly......

• First, fit the doors as best you can.
• In my case I could get a good constant gap along the lower sill edge.
• This gave me uneven gaps at the front & rear edges.
• Draw a line along the door skin parallel with the edges (see photos).
• At the areas where the gap needs work, draw measurements of how much extra metal is needed.
• Sand the edge back to metal and carefully build up a bead of weld (see photos).
• Be careful not to do too much in one spot at one time (see photos).
• Finally, grind back the weld to meet your measurements.

Hopefully you can see from the before and after photos - it doesn't look too bad at all.
It will need just a skim of filler or even a heavy undercoat filler would do. Here are the photos in the sequence above....

End of "mini post" about door gaps!