Heritage door woes, handle alignment

[snoopy64]

So ok you're gonna say 'you're checking it too late in the day' and you would be right..

But i am just fitting up my nice newly repaired & painted shell and it appears the the skin on the new heritage door is too far forward..the upshot of that is when the door handle goes on and through to the lock the alignment is just out such that the door handle in on and not clear of the door boss.....bol(6£&s i thought..

Any suggestion other that welding up the escutcheon holes and repositioning?.?

New doors...cheese and rice!!!!

Gutted!

[Nick W]

There should be some tolerance to file the holes , I would try this first .
You would have thought they might have got this detail right !
Nick

[Tupers]

So when the door handle is on the square section that operates the lock is too far forward for the lock mechanism to slot onto it?

How far off is it and what are the door gaps like?

It might be possible to file the door handle hole in the skin backwards to allow the handle to sit further back.

[snoopy64]

Hi

Looking at the holes in the skin and how close the escutcheon boses are to the edge of the escutcheon theres only a couple of mm to play with before the forward hole would become visible as the whole thing is moved back to get the correct slignment..but its the first thing to try to see if it gives enough clearance...after that im stuffed i think... a mate has suggested fitting a quarter UJ in the handle bar...sounds mad but might work!!

[snoopy64]

The sq bar goes through and into the lock box ok but the slight misalignment there kicks the handle in towards the skin...hence no room to get the boss in! £750 for a new door and you have this to put up with...wish I'd spent £700 refurbing the old ones OR tried the locks before prepping and painting

[Simon776]

Why not move the handle out on the shaft? Would that solve the problem?

[snoopy64]

Hi

The handle barrel would be out of the escutcheon, the handle end is almost on the skin!

[motodevo]

Get some square steel bar cut to the right length, cut it again halfway and weld it back together with an offset to compensate?

[Old English White]

You have my sympathy. I too bought one new Heritage door for my restoration a few years ago and it fitted like a glove

on your foot

Repairing/re-skinning an original one would have been more successful and less expensive and I was always unhappy with it.

[snoopy64]

You have my sympathy. I too bought one new Heritage door for my restoration a few years ago and it fitted like a glove

on your foot

Repairing/re-skinning an original one would have been more successful and less expensive and I was always unhappy with it.

I know... I'm trying not to think about

[snoopy64]

Hi

Well the handle was bravely sorted quickly but the glass in the drivers door is another story!!

The frames just not as big as the passenger door! Oh hum..