Adjusting the Entrance Door

[Tom Lins]

After repairing the the bottom hinge on my entrance door.
The attachment point on the door was so bad that the bottom of the door was literally flopping around.
The door now is nice and solid with no flopping around at all.
I have noticed that the top of the door has a gap of close to 3/8 inch at the hinge side
and the bottom of the door has only a gap of about 1/16 to 1/8 inch.

The manual says to adjust the door horizontally with shims.
Before I tear into the interior to get at the back of the hinges has anyone done this differently?

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Tom Lins
St Augustine, FL
77 GM Rear Twin, Dry Bath, 455, Aluminum Radiator Quad-Bag Suspension Solar Panel
Manuals on DVD
GMC Dealer Training Tapes
http://www.bdub.net/tomlins/

 

[MikeB]

Hi Tom
One way to possibly get a little height is replacing your hinge pins and the brass bushings. Won’t be a lot but may help as well as tighten up the
the doors positioning and closing. I was also able to get a little lift with the hinge bolts on coach side. That allowed some vertical adjustment.
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M Beam
75’ Avion
TBI EBL , 3.70 LSD and other stuff
Zuki Sidekick,
Dozier Al

 

[Tom Lins]

> Hi Tom
> One way to possibly get a little height is replacing your hinge pins and the brass bushings. Won’t be a lot but may help as well as tighten up
> the the doors positioning and closing. I was also able to get a little lift with the hinge bolts on coach side. That allowed some vertical
> adjustment.

Oops I was not clear enough in my description of the problem.
It is horizontal adjustment toward the hinge side of the door I need.
It is bad enough that the latch pin almost doesn't catch and I cannot get it to go to the second
level of latching.
I have replaced the hinge pins and bushings already.
Has anyone bent the hinges (the part that bolts to the body) to adjust the fit of the door?

--
Tom Lins
St Augustine, FL
77 GM Rear Twin, Dry Bath, 455, Aluminum Radiator Quad-Bag Suspension Solar Panel
Manuals on DVD
GMC Dealer Training Tapes
http://www.bdub.net/tomlins/

 

[sgltrac]

Use spacers under the lower hinge.

Sully
Bellevue wa

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 1:23 PM Tom Lins via Gmclist <

> > Hi Tom
> > One way to possibly get a little height is replacing your hinge pins and
> the brass bushings. Won’t be a lot but may help as well as tighten up
> > the the doors positioning and closing. I was also able to get a little
> lift with the hinge bolts on coach side. That allowed some vertical
> > adjustment.
>
> Oops I was not clear enough in my description of the problem.
> It is horizontal adjustment toward the hinge side of the door I need.
> It is bad enough that the latch pin almost doesn't catch and I cannot get
> it to go to the second
> level of latching.
> I have replaced the hinge pins and bushings already.
> Has anyone bent the hinges (the part that bolts to the body) to adjust the
> fit of the door?
>
> --
> Tom Lins
> St Augustine, FL
> 77 GM Rear Twin, Dry Bath, 455, Aluminum Radiator Quad-Bag Suspension
> Solar Panel
> Manuals on DVD
> GMC Dealer Training Tapes
> http://www.bdub.net/tomlins/
>
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