Aw, the doors. I'm going to take this from the beginning.
When I looked at and bought the COE I was very pleased with the condition of the of the whole cab in general. The windows had bullet holes in them, and the corners were rusted out, but the doors seemed to fit well, didn't sag too much and the latches and window regulators work all though a bit sticky. So, I kind of put those out of my mind as something to deal with latter.
Then came the upper cab. The glass was all cracked, the bottoms of the doors were rusted out and none of the latches worked. But for what I paid for it I was lucky they swung and actually fit pretty well. Needing to rebuild the bottoms, helped to inspire me to increase the length of them to blend in with the steps.
After I had the cabs welded together and before I started working on the steps, I decided then that I wanted the trim molding from under the windows to continue back level instead of running up and tying in with the upper cab like on my original rendering. So, I went ahead and ran it back first to ease into the more challenging parts. Next, I had to extend the door jambs and the rocker panels along with the cab corners. This gave me something to build out the new door bottoms to.
I left the doors on the truck while I was rebuilding them so I could check clearance as I went. I started with the inside and bent that and the sides out of one piece and when I got that to all fit properly, I skinned it and hemmed all the edges to hold the gaps straight.
Once I had them both all fitting like I wanted and welded up I pulled them off and removed the windows and hardware and started cleaning them up to get primer on them.
When I was working on fitting the doors, opening and closing them I became a were of what a pain in the rear it was reaching up to the handle on the back cab and it made me start thinking how and if I could move the outside lever handle down, so it was on the same level as the front one.
Last edited by Phak1; 12/23/20231:14 PM. Reason: Moderator: spelling
