uh-oh, he used the f word
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-oletrucks@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-oletrucks@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Gary Perry
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 10:25 PM
> To: Alan_Quin@telus.net; oletrucks@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] I am wondering?
>
>
> Allan, this is old, so maybe you fixed already but,,, even in
> the new tru=
> ck
> factories they use wood blocks, nylon blocks and levers and
> "things" that
> they just put into the hinge areas or around door edges and
> push the door=
> to
> close position to bend it. Door doesn't close of course, you
> have to "spr=
> ing
> it off the block of wood or whatever till it gives enough to cure the
> alignment problem. I have a 56 Ford shop manual and it
> describes this ver=
> y
> same method quite well and with pictures if you can find one
> of those to
> look at. Maybe your Library would have a book on that or
> manuals. I would
> bet about any earlier manual would have same articles in it.
> Ask at a loc=
> al
> body shop, once they fixed my new truck door by similar
> flexing, he may h=
> ave
> ideas.=0D
> =0D
> G. L.Perry=0D
> Huntington, IN 46750=0D
> -------Original Message-------=0D
> =0D
> From: A&LQuin=0D
> Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:39:48 AM=0D
> To: oletrucks@autox.team.net=0D
> Subject: [oletrucks] I am wondering?=0D
> =0D
> Hi fellow old truckers!=0D
> =0D
> I'm wondering if the Lower Hinge Bar over the years of throwing=0D
> open the door to far could have taken a bend outwards.=0D
> Leaving the bottom of the door out from the lower body door=0D
> opening, as in my truck 1952 GMC 1/2 ton. The factory manual=0D
> does not talk of a way to pull this coner in tight to the body.=0D
> Would heating the hinge bar and bending it in (towards the truck)=0D
> still help to pull the door tighter to the body line at the door=0D
> opening, bottom corner. Have any of you tried this way before?=0D
> =0D
> =0D
> =0D
> Any help=0D
> or other tips Appreciated.=0D
> =0D
> =0D
> Alan Quin=0D
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between
> 1941 and 1959=0D
> =0D
> =2E
>
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> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between
> 1941 and 1959
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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