pulling my hair out

[VileZambonie]

There are many ways you can post pix. Do you have a digital camera or cell phone that takes pix? I understand your frustration as I ran into this when I was 16 doing it for the first time on my 1980 C-10. I can usually have a door aligned perfectly in less than an hour on these things now as I've pretty much done it a million times. Post pix b4 you cut and if you reach your wits end put an ad on craigslist for help with body work. Pay someone a few bucks to help you make it right.

[Buddy]

yes I have a way to take a digital pic

[VileZambonie]

OK so where are you having difficulty in getting the pics up here?

[Buddy]

no trouble just have no clue how to even start. can you explain how to do it. I dont have any type of photo account just save them to a file on my PC

[Buddy]

ok i just tried it again and it keeps saying my pic is to big, how do I make them smaller

[VileZambonie]

For now if you want you can email them to me and I will host them for you.

[Captkaos]

Have you read this post?  It goes into detail on how to upload and resize pictures to the forum using what comes on a PC:
http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=6428.0

[VileZambonie]

Your pics aren't good enough to show anything. Take some pix of the door and get some light in there. Turn your flash on and just do a few angles but get the whole door. This is the best one you sent me and I fixed it as best as it's going to get. From what I can see it needs to come up in the front.

[Buddy]

hey guys
just wanted to say thanks, I got it last night. My buddy came over and said "lets try hitting it with a hammer and a 2x4". thought he was out to lunch a little but i said screw it lets try it! 30 hits later and 2 - 2x4 it looks great moved it about 3/16 everything fits great. Thanks again for the help.

[jaredts]

Cool!  Glad you got it.  What did you hit with a 2x4?  The edge of the door to drive it forward?  I just finished aligning my door and had tons of problems.  The two biggest things that helped me were to use a big pair of channel locks on the hinge/cowl lip to pull the hinge toward the front of the truck.  This worked better for me than straining on the door itself just to have it sag to the wrong position (yes I have new hinge pins/bushings).  The other was to put a jack or 2x4 under the hinges to hold them up while I did all that and tighten them down.  I've never aligned a door that way--never had to but it made it a lot easier for me.  I think I can align my driver's door in an hour now that I've learned a few tricks.  I'm embarassed to say how long I have in the passenger side.

[Buddy]

i put my driver door on in 20 mins, put my pass side on in a week and a half. So I here where your coming from. I thought I was going to loose my mind screwing with that door, never jhad anything drive me like that. Had to walk away a few times. I just had a guy hold a 2x4  flat agaist the post and hit it with a dead blow hammer. i just got my gap right I have lined everything up perfect yet but now I know I can. The jack and the channel locks is also a great idea ... might have to use that yet!