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| | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 34 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 34 | I have a ’49 Chevy 1 ton. Bodies never been redone. Lately I’ve noticed that the doors make an aRRRGHscreetch sound when opened. Passenger side is worse. I can see that it is the front edge of the door rubbing on the front of the cab. When closed the gap doesn’t look too bad.
Is this the door hinges giving out or could the front body mounts have given away a smidgen enough to effect the doors? When the door is opened and I lift it upward, the door hinges don’t move much at all. The front body mounts look fine, the cab doesn’t seem to have dropped. Is it just door adjustment or what should be my first assumption?
Frank
1949 Chevy 3800
1929 Chevy International
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 422 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 422 | Squirt some WD-40 or other lubricant on the springs in the door jam. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 34 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 34 | I already did squirt lubricant on the springs, no change. I can see clearly that it is the front of the door rubbing on the front of the cab right at the moment the door starts to open.
Frank
1949 Chevy 3800
1929 Chevy International
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1952 1300 Canadian 1/2 ton restomod You Tube | | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | I think your hinge pins are probably shot. Mark the locations of everything so you can put them back how they were and remove and rebuild the hinges.
My truck needs this too, I can actually lift the back end of the driver's side door with it open and feel the play.
Usually if the cab mounts are shot the pedals start rubbing against the holes in the body.
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