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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. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/