http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=40386

Anyone have one? I been talking about this jack with my dad for a long time and this weekend the time finally came where my doors were all painted and ready to go on the car. So i get my dad and my brother to help hold. Well the doors don't fit. Not a gap issue, its all the tooling I did in the door jambs to make them smooth. Basically a square doesnt go into a circle issue. I am hopeing that this jack will work like I think it will work. I am hopeing while the door is attached to the jack I can just roll it right up the the car and fit it in place. Then roll it back and grind a little off a corner and roll it back. Then after repaint I can roll it in and bolt up my hinges without dealing with any more scratches. Maybe I should have fit the doors before painting the body, but I didn't and thats the way it is.

I bought one just to change the hinge pins. Worth every bit of the $100 shipped to my house. You can adjust the doors by yourself. I gave it to my stepson who has a small body shop afet I was done. A+

Ok I got this tool today. Its Ok, but I am gonna have to make it better. I was hopeing and praying that I could attach my door to it and just roll it right up into the door jamb, simulating a fully closed door. Not quite. The main problem I have to deal with is the bottom support. Its a piece of angle iron standing on its peak (creating a groover with a 45 degree slope on both sides)which the door drops into, now this isn't the problem. The problem is rather then the peak being welded to the jack two more pieces of angle iron were welded to it to kinda make a diamon shape. So the peaks of the diamon just hits the rocker stopping it from getting in the door jamb.

My fix for this has already started, first I tried ti flatten out the diamon shape and ended up just breaking it right off teh jack. So I am gonna get new piece of angle iron and some rubber and just weld the angle iron flat againt the jack on both sides. It will be flat on the bottom vs a 45 degree angle as the old one was. I should be able to just set the door where I need it to set on teh angle iron.

The top part is just a small piece of angle iron with a pad, which only holds the inside edge of the door. Now my doors bow out so the weight is on the outside edge, so the door just falls outward untill it his the support bar for the top holder. So what I am gonna do about that is drill some holes through the the support bar so I can stick a threaded rod, put nuts on it, and a pad to put pressure against the door.

Hopefully I will end up with a solid tool for doing exactly what I want to be able to do. I should have just built something myself to begin with.

Door jacks are made for taking doors off and putting them on in the open postition only. They can be used to adjust a door up and down in the open position. I do collision work for a living and have a door jack, not this one, and they are priceless on those heavy doors.

Well I guess I will have the first door hanging tool that lets me position a door in the closed position.

what company did you buy this thru?I tried to buy one here and they could not supply.I am in brandon manitoba canada.

I just ordered it from the website.

I need to beat my doors or something. Both door, I make the front bottom corner fit well then the top back corner is in. Vice-versa. Can't win.

Well I guess I will have the first door hanging tool that lets me position a door in the closed position.

Maybe so, but that is the wrong way to repair a car. Everything should fit before welding and finishing.

Well I guess I will have the first door hanging tool that lets me position a door in the closed position.

Good. Now how do you tighten the hinge bolts???

I need to beat my doors or something. Both door, I make the front bottom corner fit well then the top back corner is in. Vice-versa. Can't win.

You need to read the section on door adjustment.

http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?p=413681

Yeah I tried my best to "twist" the door but I just don't have the strenth to bend the steel. Maybe I need to use some kind of jack. Or now that I think a little if I protect the paint well enough I can use a pry bar. Yeah I think that is what I will be because I can get the door pretty much perfect except one corner is always off.

Yeah I tried my best to "twist" the door but I just don't have the strenth to bend the steel. Maybe I need to use some kind of jack. Or now that I think a little if I protect the paint well enough I can use a pry bar. Yeah I think that is what I will be because I can get the door pretty much perfect except one corner is always off.

I have a rather larger rubber block that I stick inbetween the door shell and body to twist the door. A 2x4 wrapped in duct tape works well too. Multiple hard shoves help to tweak the door more than just pushing does. If this doesn't work send me a pic of the problem and I may have some more ideas.