I was crawing around under the 58 a little while back and noticed that the bolts for the rear cab mounts were both snapped off. The passenger mount was just gone, nothing between the cab and the frame at all. The driver side still had the upper half of the mount, but it was pretry collapsed.

I got a new set of cab mounts and put them in today, and that process went fine except the the doors don't shut anymore.

The driver door is not visibly different, but it takes a pretty hard slam to close now. It was always a little stiff, but I was waiting to adjust it until I got some other thinga done. I don't see any binding anywhere, but it is just hard to close.

The passenger door opened and closed like butter before. Now the latch on the door side hits the mechanism on the cab side a good 1/8" low. Getting the door to latch requires lifting from the handle and slamming it home.

The hinges are mounted to the cab as well, so I feel like this shouldn't have happened.

Maybe I could shim the front mounts up and that would help? I don't really know where to go from here.

I could take the new rubber mounts out and just bolt it back together the way it was, but I feel like the right answer is to adjust something else.

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