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Door Assembly And Inner Door Handles
Created on 2008-07-09 06:02:31
On holidays here, so I've got a bit of time to work on the MGB. Dug out the innards of the doors and cleaned them up and re-greased them.
Had a few issues with working out how they went back together but with the help of the manuals, the pics I took during disassembly and the pics I've collected from other cars, I managed to get one whole door assembled and back on the car.
I had to take it off because the holes holding the vent window frame didn't line up after I had repaired it all those months ago. I couldn't get a file into the end of the door while it was on the car.
No matter, this made it easier to assemble the bits while it was sitting on it's side on a table.
I made a small tool to locate the holes for the door panels from a loop of strap steel with a spike in one side and a hole in the other and I works perfectly. I found all the holes easily but I wasn't happy with the positioning of some of them so I moved some of them to make the spacing more uniform and an equal distance from the edge of the door.
That was yesterday.
Today I intended to do the other door but I started on making the inner door handles. I've never liked the little hinged door handles and intended to see about getting or making a handle/arm rest.
Using some maple pieces I made up some handles and covered them with foam and black vinyl. They will be attached with 2 screws from the back of the panel and two bolts going into the door.
I've got them attached to the panels but need to buy some suitable 3/16" screws 1 3/4" long to go from the front into the door.
I'm pretty pleased how they came out. It was a bit of a challenge to stretch the vinyl over them and minimise the wrinkling.
It went OK with most of the wrinkling either on the bottom or in the inner curve.
Had a few issues with working out how they went back together but with the help of the manuals, the pics I took during disassembly and the pics I've collected from other cars, I managed to get one whole door assembled and back on the car.
I had to take it off because the holes holding the vent window frame didn't line up after I had repaired it all those months ago. I couldn't get a file into the end of the door while it was on the car.
No matter, this made it easier to assemble the bits while it was sitting on it's side on a table.
I made a small tool to locate the holes for the door panels from a loop of strap steel with a spike in one side and a hole in the other and I works perfectly. I found all the holes easily but I wasn't happy with the positioning of some of them so I moved some of them to make the spacing more uniform and an equal distance from the edge of the door.
That was yesterday.
Today I intended to do the other door but I started on making the inner door handles. I've never liked the little hinged door handles and intended to see about getting or making a handle/arm rest.
Using some maple pieces I made up some handles and covered them with foam and black vinyl. They will be attached with 2 screws from the back of the panel and two bolts going into the door.
I've got them attached to the panels but need to buy some suitable 3/16" screws 1 3/4" long to go from the front into the door.
I'm pretty pleased how they came out. It was a bit of a challenge to stretch the vinyl over them and minimise the wrinkling.
It went OK with most of the wrinkling either on the bottom or in the inner curve.
Summary of Previous Journal Entries
Showing previous 10 journal entries:
| Title | Date | #Pic | #Cmt | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catchup On The Journal Thing. | 2008-07-02 | 6 | I've done a lot more but haven't recorded here, I've just been through a very busy time at school and the working on the car has been more of a sanity retainer. At this stage I'll ... | |
| Back Shelf Cover & Footwell Panels | 2008-06-03 | 2 | Completed the back shelf by making the centre carpet piece and using hot glue to make the moulded section covering the shock absorber humps on each side. Turned out ok from ... | |
| Little More Behind The Seat And The Centre Console. | 2008-06-01 | The back shelf is a very difficult surface to cover with carpet and one piece has to be removable for battery access. I decided to cover the section just inboard of the wheel arch ... | ||
| Battery Cover And Wheel Arches | 2008-05-28 | 4 | Gave the battery cover an etch with the last of the MetalReady and used up almost all of my PO15 on it. I've done this many times before so I didn't bother with before photo... | |
| New Seats, Interior Panels And Windscreen | 2008-05-25 | 6 | A bit of variety in this entry. Got the seats back from Scotts Uphols. last Wednesday and I'm really pleased with the colours. The quality of the job is good, not great but ... | |
| The Bonnet X2 | 2008-05-14 | 4 | 1 | This morning I looked again at the finish I'd got after primer coats and decided that it wasn't good enough. It had some small holes along the nose so I tried to sand them out. Got... |
| The Bonnet! | 2008-05-11 | 3 | Well, I couldn't put it off any longer, so this weekend I attacked the top of the bonnet. Fill - sand - fill - sand - more fill - more sand - more fill - more sand primer - ... | |
| Buckled, Distorted Bonnet And New Seats. | 2008-05-07 | 3 | The bonnet is something I'd been putting off sorting out. Apart from the rough top surface, there was a spot in the top drivers side that was stretched and would 'pop' up an... | |
| Paint But Too Wet! | 2008-04-21 | 5 | Been raining off and on for last few days and I've been putting off the painting - 'till today. Stopped raining and it was still, no wind to speak of. Thought I'd give it a ... | |
| Filling - Sanding - Filling - Sanding | 2008-04-18 | 6 | Body work in earnest is the order of the days now. I'm halfway through the holidays and I've got stuck into the front guards. You may remember that the passenger guard was patched ... |
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