Not too much to report from the weekend, was out all day Sunday at a cyclocross race, so that took up all of the time. Then I was tired.
Saturday, had a friend pop over and help with door alignment. The rear doors just really need an extra pair of hands to get them fitting correctly. We spent an hour or so and the gaps are really nice all the way around, so I am happy with that. Drivers side (left) door was done (previous entry) and just needed hanging, while the passenger door was needing a bit of massaging.
I took a couple mm off of the edge closest to the B-Pillar and re-welded the edge for a more uniform gap.
Interestingly, the bottom of the door is nice and even and level with the sill, which is original. The trailing edge of the door, is parallel (although the gap was a bit too tight for my liking) with the B-Pillar. This would indicate the door was square to the car, however, the trailing edge of the window frame was at an angle with the gap tightening up as it gets closer to the door top. The top of the window frame is also parallel to the roof line.
It left me with one choice, I had to cut the window frame where it meets the door top and move it over about 3mm, it was only then that the window frame was plumb.
This leaves a whole bunch of fettling to be done where the door top and the window frame meets, hopefully I will get my head around it tonight and get it sorted.
This door was not the original to the car, but is was a perfect, rust-free example, I figured it would be easier to use it than to repair the small perforations in the bottom of the original door... Hrmph.
Also, of Friday, I media blasted the bonnet and realized that it was in fact, a Morris bonnet. My Cooper project is a Morris, with an Austin bonnet, so naturally, I drove out to my lockup and did the old switcheroo, so now both cars are sporting the correct bonnet. So there's that.
