Fitting up the doors.

The shell was supposed to have come home yesterday from its 3 week job that was to take 1 week! My trimmer likes to leave things to the last minute so I had to cancel the truck as the front windscreen was not fitted on time.

I fitted up all the glass, rubbers and trim to one of the rear doors today. I had an old door nearby to copy from as its been a while since I stripped them. I only need to fit the aluminum strip to the outside tomorrow and the rubber weather seal. I will fit the seals when I have all the doors ready together.

 Lock fitted.

 A fly screen spline roller was handy to fit the bailey channel.

 Trim fitted.

Internal fit up completed. I will paint the faded door handles

 and renew the chrome strip to make them look a bit better.

Fitting up the front doors created a problem with new rubbers. I can wind up the window without much trouble but the new outer glass scraper wants to invert when winding down. The rubber sticks to the glass. I will try to roughen up the side of the rubber that mates with the glass in a hope it will allow the glass to slide properly.

I rubbed the aluminum outer body strips with 1500 wet and dry then polished them on the polishing wheel on the grinder. They came up quite nice.

The shell is now finished at the trimmer and will return home tomorrow.

Outer of the completed rear doors.

 Inside of the completed rear doors.

 Front passenger door

Not too shabby.