All doors had some kind of bend or kink from the outside. From the inside, all passenger's doors were OK, driver's door was broken in a couple of places, small barn door was OK, tire carrier barn door was damaged in more then one way, with cracked spot welds, with a thick but totally crooked reinforcement plate torch welded to the inside.
Passenger's doors
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Driver's door
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Took off all the doors for the necessary panel beating everywhere. The driver's door was welded on the inside panel where needed and here one comment: what a surprisingly thin sheet metal! The tire carrier barn door had the crooked reinforcement removed, panels were beaten back to place until they properly seat on the internal OEM reinforcements. Everything was squared/aligned before remaking the spot welds everywhere and some extra weld beads were laid on the sheet to internal structure places that hold the spare tire weight.
Than it was the "new weekend, sand, prime, store, repeat" all over...
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New weekend, sand, prime, store, repeat...
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New weekend, sand, prime, store, repeat... x1000 LOL!
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We have also sprayed the inside of the doors with Siltex 400 for some level of sound deadening, but I have plans since the beginning of this restoration to do proper sound deadening techniques to the doors, like stuffing butyl rope between the safety crash bars and the sheet metal, applying butyl metallic tiles to the sheet metal, etc. That will come at the proper time.
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We then had the doors installed and adjusted/aligned to prepare for the final sanding and get ready for all the masking required for a two color job. I was pretty excited with the way the alignment came out.
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