Friday, May 6, 2016

Passenger Door

May 6, 2016 -

  A couple nights ago I worked at fitting the passenger door.  This was a lot harder than the driver's side door.  This one took a lot of sanding to get it to fit ok where the top of the door meets the rear body panel part.  At this stage you really want the top two corners to fit with the body well.  Later you can move the main body in or out some to get the bottom corners to look right.
  Today I put the striker and the latch on.  Fairly similar to the driver's side here.  I ended up using the latch spacers on both the passenger and driver sides.  I think riders will feel a lot safer now.  :-)  Here is a picture of both doors latched.


Sunday, May 1, 2016

Door Latch 1

May 1, 2016 -

  I've attached the driver's side door and did some sanding down of the edges on it with a Festool random orbit sander and connected dust collector while I wore a 3M respirator.  That got the door edges fitting pretty well. (I'm sure it all changes some after painting.)  Then I attached the stiker and then the latch.  (I did grease up the insides of the latch mechanism while I had it open per the instructions.)  Here's a picture of the latch attached to the door and locked onto the striker.  I show it closed to show it is all lined up.