Advice needed on installing AMD full quarter on 70 Duster
Thanks your advise is helping, this is my first full quarter replacement, although I have done floor pans, partial rocker sill and some other partial replacements on this car as well as some lower quarter patch panels in the past. Given the great fit of the AMD trunk floor, I was expecting a better fit for the quarter and wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious. In the end I suspect I might have been better off doing a butt welded partial quarter instead of a full factory style quarter. Guess I watched too many videos and TV shows including Craig H's quarter panel replacement how-to video for a 69 dart. I drank the cool aide :-(
I did some work on the rear gutter on the quarter and the trunk gap get is getting closer now. I trimmed a little more at the roof joint and that is looking better. I started to bend the side rear window sill down at the correct angle and that's improving but not yet seating right.
Looks like I have the same front upper door gap issue discussed here. How much of a slice did you end up needing to make it work? As you can see I tried temporarily hanging it inside the door jamb at the top to see if I could get the bottom better with that 1/8 change at the top. Looks like it needs a lot more at the top to get the bottom door jamb correct, hard to see in the photos but the bottom is about 1/4" or more off and the door won't even close at the bottom. The back is also 3/8" off on the overhang which goes behind the bumper. However the wheel house was lining up well (AMD outer wheel house). For now I pulled off the trunk extension and wheel house so I can play with the quarter by itself a little easier.
You can see that I chose not to cut out the roof sill, so I already need to butt weld the quarter near the sill.
Lower door jamb:
Upper door jamb, temporary experiment, the 1/8" change didn't help much:
Door gaps, won't close at bottom, off by at least a 1/4" at top.
Rear overhang at bumper is off by about 3/8":
Roof seam, chose not to cut out roof drip rail, so I have some butt welding to do here already:
Thanks your advise is helping, this is my first full quarter replacement, although I have done floor pans, partial rocker sill and some other partial replacements on this car as well as some lower quarter patch panels in the past. Given the great fit of the AMD trunk floor, I was expecting a better fit for the quarter and wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious. In the end I suspect I might have been better off doing a butt welded partial quarter instead of a full factory style quarter. Guess I watched too many videos and TV shows including Craig H's quarter panel replacement how-to video for a 69 dart. I drank the cool aide :-(
I did some work on the rear gutter on the quarter and the trunk gap get is getting closer now. I trimmed a little more at the roof joint and that is looking better. I started to bend the side rear window sill down at the correct angle and that's improving but not yet seating right.
Looks like I have the same front upper door gap issue discussed here. How much of a slice did you end up needing to make it work? As you can see I tried temporarily hanging it inside the door jamb at the top to see if I could get the bottom better with that 1/8 change at the top. Looks like it needs a lot more at the top to get the bottom door jamb correct, hard to see in the photos but the bottom is about 1/4" or more off and the door won't even close at the bottom. The back is also 3/8" off on the overhang which goes behind the bumper. However the wheel house was lining up well (AMD outer wheel house). For now I pulled off the trunk extension and wheel house so I can play with the quarter by itself a little easier.
You can see that I chose not to cut out the roof sill, so I already need to butt weld the quarter near the sill.
Lower door jamb:
Upper door jamb, temporary experiment, the 1/8" change didn't help much:
Door gaps, won't close at bottom, off by at least a 1/4" at top.
Rear overhang at bumper is off by about 3/8":
Roof seam, chose not to cut out roof drip rail, so I have some butt welding to do here already: