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predator Grand Master

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I'm having great trouble aligning my new door on my 33. I bought a new one and put it on, seems pretty much fine - however its sitting out about 5mm too far on the hinge end. This puts out alignment with the front guard way out, and if i bolt up the guard in the proper position it comes onto the guard and won't close.

I've undone both the door side bolts, and a-pillar side bolts and lifted the hinges up, jiggled it around, all sorts of things, but it almost seems as if they're different hinges. I'm trying to get hold of the hinges off my old door to try and see whether that makes a difference, but its a bit of a last ditch attempt.

I'm pretty sure its the right door - or are their subtle differences between s1 and s2 or GTR doors (although i don't think this is off a GTR)??

I've been stuffing it for hours over the last couple of days with no success and its really starting to piss me off. I mean its on and nearly there, but that extra bit it comes out screws all the alignment up. Do doors all come out of the factory different (hope not!), or what is the deal?

Does anybody have any tips or knowledge of this particular problem?

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You could try dremeling a bit more out of the hinge to give it a bit more backwards adjustment. I had similar issues with lining up a rear door on my Commodore. I fiddled with it a lot and couldn't get it just right. In the end I gave up and put up with the line across the top not being straight across all the way along. I then went and looked at the other side where the original door was and it followed the same dodgy line! Ah, good old Holden workmanship.

predator Grand Master

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yeah - but unfortunately i want a proper fit.. nice and japanese quality like it was to start with :D I'm going to try the original hinges. If not, I did think of that also - "ovalling" the screw holes out a bit more so i can slide it across a few mil.

I mean pushing it in it sits level, soon as i do up the hinges it starts sitting out again. So it seems to be mainly the hinges and how they're sitting rather than anything else. dum de dum

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