Billy Lisenbee

I recently bought a 1975 Caprice convertible to restore. It's generally in good shape, but the driver's side door is sagging. Instead of buying new pins and bushings, i just purchased 4 new hinges.

Yesterday, I replaced the driver's side hinges, but I'm having a tough time adjusting the gaps and setting the door correctly. The door is now rubbing against the front fender.

Anyone ever change the hinges successfully? Any tips or advice?

kevinkpk

Do you have shims for the hinge? Sounds like it needs shimed towards the back of the car. If you have access to a floor jack, use that to do your lifting to the door cradled on it.

Billy Lisenbee

Thanks for the reply.

What kind of shim? Where do I get the shim? Certainly not a wood shim, correct?


(I did use a jack. It would terrible without the jack.)

kevinkpk

These are going to be steel shims, and you shoudln't need many jst enough to re-enfource the hinge on the boby to support the door

Billy Lisenbee

I'll grab a shim or two, but I've just realized that the easiest way to adjust the door (that is, to access each of the bolts on the hinges) is to remove the fender first. I'm going to try that tomorrow and see how it goes.