hanging unloaded doors?

Align the hood with the cowl, now the fun starts, align the fenders.

Spend the rest of the afternoon adjusting the doors and fenders.

Wrong! Doors first! They must be aligned to the quarters and rockers first. Then install the hood and align it with the cowl. Fenders come last. You would play hell adjusting the hinges on the doors with the fenders installed! All the gaps from the factory sucked anyway. Unless you are doing a custom job there is no point in fighting with the gaps. Get you a couple of large carpenters pencils and use them to get the gap for the quarter to door and door to rocker. That is real close to factory specs. Once these gaps are obtained then install the striker and adjust accordingly.

Ask me how I know or just look in my thread in my sig.