Tom - regarding your damaged hinges - I had the door on my '53 3100 come open
while I was backing up in a parking lot, and it went into some bushes that I
though were just grassy weeds, so didn't put the brake on right away thinking
it would just bend the grass over, but there was some unseen wood in the pile
that bent the hinges too.
I was able to fix it temporarily by loosening the bolts on the cab side of the
hinges and played around with putting some plastic spacers behind part of it
till it lined up right again and it closes fine for now.
Dave Wurst
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[oletrucks] goog news, bad news [Tom Cooper <tntcoop@earthlink.net>]
[oletrucks] Re: Late night pondering... 235 machine work [mark <ccpanel@y]
[oletrucks] Brother's power steering kit ["Hanlon, Bill (ISS Houston)" <B]
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:34:28 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From: Tom Cooper <tntcoop@earthlink.net>
Subject: [oletrucks] goog news, bad news
I took my truck home from getting the front end welded on, thats the good
news. The bad news is the driver door was not latched and because we had the
truck loaded backwards on the trailer, the door flew open. That didn't do much
good for the hinges. I gues another bit of good news it, there were no front
fenders on the truck so it didn't bend them.
I realize i will need new hinges, but is there any way to bend these back
close to where they were? I want to get them bent back close so i can close
the door. I will install new hinges when i get to that point. What are some of
the methods you guys have tried to bend the hinges back? What other components
may have suffered damage? Thanks Tom in sc
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