[Healeys] Fit

[gradea1 at charter.net]

The body shop takes a 2X4 about 3-4 ft. long and sticks it in the
lower pocket corner and bends the top of the door outward, CAREFULLY,
just a bit beyond where it fits perfect, and then releases the
pressure-very scary to watch, but doors tops line up. Hank

	-----------------------------------------From: "Perry Small via
Healeys" 
To: "Michael MacLean"
Cc: "healeys"
Sent: Wednesday March 16 2022 6:47:47PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fit

 This will not help Michael with his situation but it illustrates an
old Austin axiom. “Completely build the car before doing the finial
finishes.” Use all the parts and fasteners that you intend to use on
the finished car and adjust things to get a decent fit. Dismantle and
final finish the bits. Reassemble.
 Michael the door fit can be tweaked a bit to get the outer trailing
edge to line up with the rear guard. The nice aluminum cockpit trim
can be bent to fit better and you might have to use a spacer block
between the trim and body inner body panel
 P

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 > On Mar 16, 2022, at 6:43 PM, Michael MacLean  wrote:
 >
 > 
 > Just had the cockpit (can you still say that?) trim powder coated
to a very close facsimile of bright dip anodizing. Installing the trim
broght home the fact this car is a hodge podge of parts from many
different cars. The doors are from another car. The inner frame
superstructure was removed to do rust repair to the frame then welded
back on. The frame was put in a fixture to keep it square and
straight, but there was no such fixture to Weld the inner frame to the
"ladder". You can see the result in the picture. By the way, the other
side (driver's side) lines up fine. Another benefit from not having
the original cockpit trim is some ends are too long and the holes in
the doors and shrouds do not exactly line up with the holes in the
trim. Notice the angle of the screw head in the door trim.
 > Mike MacLean


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