[wacky174]

Guys, I'm into hanging the doors back on my '69 Camaro and have a serious question that needs to be answered. I'm placing the doors back onto the car and need to know what your thoughts are about the door to quarter panel spacing. According to the Fisher Body Assembly manual the door gap or spacing is said to be 3/16 plus 1/32 minus 1/16. Do you think that this is correct. Hanging doors and getting them correct so the fenders line up is my objective. If I use this spacing evenly from top to botom will I be close as far a the door to fender alignment. Everything hinges on the door being correctly set from what I read. I'm going to tack the fenders on as well but I figured I would ask here first. So far getting the door aligned has been a real bear. MartinSR's post helps but it's all together different when you actually attempt it.

Thanks !

Wacky

[JohnZ]

Those are the production specs - the Fisher Body plants used a door-setting fixture with two 3/16" steel spacers at the rear of the door to the quarter, and two more spacers between the bottom of the door and the rocker (the hinges had already been fixture-set for height and in-out and tightened to the front of the door in an off-line fixture ahead of time). The fixture supported the door, was positioned to the body, the hinge-to-pillar bolts were shot, and the fixture was removed (one every 52 seconds). Doors were hung in the Body Shop with the rear top edge kicked-up about 3/16" high to the matching peak on the quarter to compensate for the weight of door glass, trim and hardware that would be added later in the Trim Shop. Painted fenders were installed two or three shifts later on the Chevrolet side of the plant.
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