Swinger 1969 door alignment

[jarkka]

Hi, i would like to know how near my doors
are to correct position. Specially i would like to know
front of doors height, should it be a little higher?
How much higher? Have a look on the pictures.
Can you send a picture of correctly positioned door or
measurement between tags A and B? Any comments are welcome.

 

[70Duster440]

The front of the door should come up to make a smooth transition from cowl to door. It's hard to tell in the pic but it looks like you have a pretty large vertical gap at the rear of the door that gets narrower at the bottom. The rear gap should be pretty even from top to bottom (in the neighborhood of 3/16"). I don't think it's too unusual to have a wider gap along the bottom edge of the door. Bear in mind that the rear of the door will drop slightly once it's loaded with glass and hardware.

Because of manufacturing tolerances sometimes you have to compromise a little here and there on the gaps to get everything to work and look right. The alternative is to add/subtract material from the door edges to get perfect gaps.

 

[jarkka]

Thank you for the info!