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Does anyone have any advice for the following? So I am starting on the body work on my 72 and I noticed that the passenger door has a bit of a gap towards the rear of the cab, I measured both doors and there is about 3/16 difference between the drivers and passenger's side, it looks like there were a few shims added to the passenger's side. The gaps along the front all look pretty normal, and I can find no wrinkles in the cab anywhere to tell damage, there is a patch panel welded to the drivers floor board towards the front center. I am going to be replacing the front of both sides of the cab floorboards as it has the normal rot and also the inner and outer rocker panels, is there a fix for the gap issue that I should try since I will have the floor cut up?
 
Discussion starter · #3 ·
Sorry I meant to say on the cab, from the front fender to the rear of the door opening on the cab, I haven't taken the front fenders off yet but so far the gaps don't look that far out of alignment. I believe that the doors are original as the truck has been repainted and originally it was a two tone white and blue and the inside of the door has a lighter blue than the outside and some of the white on the window frame. Also on the passenger side the drip rail molding doesn't overlap like the driver side does, but there is no other sign that the cab is warped.
 
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I will have to give your technique a try as I was just dropping the tape across at about the handle level and at the bottom from the front gap beginning at the front fender to the back of the gap at the cab.
 
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Update, got the doors off and measured the cab just below the door hinge, the passenger side is about 3/16" larger going across than the driver side, the windshield is off by about a sixteenth of an inch going top to bottom, passenger side is actually a little smaller than the driver's side, I was a little surprised by that one as the previous owner put a gob of silicone on the passenger side, haven't done a corner to corner measurement on the windshield yet. It looks like the rockers are original but the cab corners were replaced but they did a shoddy job as one side has a considerable overlap, could not stabilizing the cab while doing repairs in those areas cause warping? Opinions on how to fix or if it could be within factory specs are welcome.
 
Discussion starter · #9 ·
From looking at the frame and the front and rear quarters it doesn't appear to have been in a accident, but it has quite a bit of grease and dirt built up on it, I'll have to get the cab off and the frame cleaned to examine further. I took out the fuel tank and everything on the back side appears normal. The only welds that I can find are at the cab corners, the floorboards have the normal rot on them so it's hard to tell from there, there are also the cab support end caps covering the original ones. I plan on removing those and replacing them with repops.
 
Discussion starter · #11 ·
Can anyone provide me with some measurements on their door frames along with where they measured from, that might help me in a starting point, I looked through the assembly manual and a repair manual and I can't find any measuring points. Thanks.
 
Discussion starter · #15 ·
Yeah, that would be great, I just need a reference number to compare I am hoping that your number will be close to mine. Just let me know from what points you measured from, thanks.
 
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