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Re: [T3] Door Fitting FunFunFun


Hey, sounds like like last week for me, I just finished stripping
painting my '71 SB door and got the "fun" of getting it back on
single-handed and lined up.  Working on the driver's door now, will
probably have more "fun" this weekend.  Took most of Sat. morning to
get it together and it was mid-afternoon when I finally got it aligned
so it closed decently and had a good gap all the way around and lined
up with the fenders.  Makes me wonder what kind of geniuses they had
on the assembly lines to get it done in a production environment.  I
think I'm going to have to bend the driver's door pivots to clear the
front fender, it looks like they've been hit hard sometime in the
past.  This side is a lot harder to get going than the passenger's
door.  Moor rust, more dents, mechanical problems.

Here's one for the rustologists on the list.  Passenger's door had no
rust under the frame trim, driver's side had a line of rust under the
paint right where the trim hit the door, also had patches of rust
under the paint at 1-2" intervals all along the outside  of the door
under the trim.  Glad I stripped the paint off, wouldn't have seen it
otherwise.  Paint is the factory stuff, too, hell to strip off.  Had
tio use aircraft finish stripper, hardware store stuff is just too
weak to do more than make the top layer gummy.  Aircraft stripper
makes it all pop off in about 15 minutes down to the metal, you can
hear it frizzling the paint up, sounds like frying bacon.  VW used
good stuff on the original finish, too bad it didn't stand up more
than 27 years.

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