I forgot to follow up on this, maybe it will help Tex. In the picture I posted of the welded on bracket you can see that part of the door channel at the top of the bracket melted away. After painting my truck I installed the side cowl vent door. The welds interfered with the hinge so I ground for clearance. The force of the spring tension easily overcame the strength of the welds. It seems the thick metal bracket welded to the thin body sheet metal is a poor design here. I made a mounting template based on the angles of the bracket to align the bracket to the opening. I used a combination of 2 long bolts(cut to length) through the kick panel held in place with nuts/lockwashers and a couple Chicago rivets through the cowl vent channel. That still didn’t get the door perfectly aligned, it wasn’t closing flush. After I attached the handle that helped. There are only two positions, open and closed. I’m not sure if there is a detent in the handle, but it closes nice and tight now.
