Fixing door hackjob pt2

I'm closer to solving my door issues. I am able to close my door, but not flushly. When i close the door the front of the door towards the hindges is either flush on the top or bottom not both though. You'll see in these pictures.


the bottom sticks out an inch , I believe i can fix this but i will have to pull the door post out an inch more than it normally sits. Am i going about it in the wrong way?? An inch is to small to notice right???




http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/data/500/Topflush.JPG

here my finger points out the point at with the door post would need to me cut and then the bottom most of the door post need tobe tweeked out an inch..

if you can follow let me know what you think?

 

Hard to tell from the pics.

Also, whats been done to the body?

Take lots of measurements, if the body is right then bend/tweek the door.

 

Chevy body? Wood?? Body may be sagging, changing the curve. Try pulling B pillars at about belt level together with turnbuckle or hoist and see if fit improves.

 

from the pics looks like its the top half of the windscreen is wrong, pics are too close to the car to tell though.

old doors twist a lot as well, you need to figure out which part you think is wrong then support the other end of the door and pull it into shape e.g. if you think its the top which is sitting to far in, support the bottom half of the door and pull the top half of the door out, or put a piece of wood in the door pillar and use that to push against to twist the top/bottom half of the door into the correct shape.

 

been doing alot of referancing to the other sides pillar and i feel the bottom needs to come out. Its a chevy. I don't think the door was bent.
I think the previous owners didn't brace the door frame before they attempted a chop on it. so...

we'll see.
Its only an inch, i want the whole door to be flush agaist body and i think i can fix it. do you think it will be noticable?

 

On a Chevy, nobody will notice an inch.

 

If the doors have had the wood replaced with steel by the same guy, I'd suspect that the curvature of the door is off. It seems to me it would be easier to make the curvature of the door match the body than the other way around. You might try making a cardboard pattern of the curves and comparing it to the other side.

 

Hey now!

I have a 31 chevy and replaced all the wood with steel. I had a little of the same issue but mine was more like 1/4". I put a little pie cut in the door jamb, pulled it together and welded it. Stuff moves around when you start weling in steel tube.

 

Save yorself a lot of grief and do exactly as stated above..templates and all....That way you know both sides match.....

 

all the guy did was an atempted chop. looks to me like he cut out 6 inchs of the pillar out and then became overwhelmed and put it back and welded it in.

 

i've never chopped a roof, but, i'd think that if u removed the same area from the door, the curve would match the ones in the pillars.