- Hey Youtube, this is Donnie
and welcome to another Eastwood video series.
In this series we're working on the Mustang,
and we're changing the color and showing you all the steps
that we're taking on this job.
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Now, in this video we're gonna show you some tips
for aligning the doors, so that the gaps are nice and even.
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- [Donnie] Alright, we finally got the jambs painted.
We've got the jambs of the car painted,
and now we have the jambs of the door,
so we can put the doors on.
And the reason we're putting the doors on,
we're not so much worried about the hood,
or the deck lid, or anything like that is because we're
putting stripes that's gonna go down the side of the car,
and we would hate to measure wrong
or get something off just a little bit,
and the stripe not line up correctly, so
on this job we decided to jamb the doors separately
and put the doors on.
Now, there may be instances,
like I mentioned in the last video
where it may be a better option to paint the entire door,
the front and the back so that you don't
have any lines or anything like that,
but we decided to do it this way with this car.
And so, we're getting the doors back on in this video,
and we're gonna give you some tips for lining the door up.
Now, I realize a lot of you may not have these door stands
like we have in this video, but man,
they really come in useful,
because you can adjust this door up, down.
You can tilt it any direction.
You can tilt the front in or out,
or the bottom in or out.
They really come in handy, but you could use a jack stand
with some boards, or maybe some blankets,
fire blanket or something to keep from damaging the door.
But if you are putting on fresh painted panels,
it's also very important for you to put them up to the car
and start trying to put them on like right here
is that you tape the edges with some masking tape.
I put a couple of layers, because you don't want to mar
or scratch any of the edges of the panel.
So, I would always, like if you just painted a fender,
you painted the jamb and the outside at the same time
you're putting it on, be sure and mask it off
to protect the paint from damaging it.
So, we're getting the door up there.
We're getting it aligned and, like I said,
you can do it with a little bit more work with a jack stand.
This makes it really simple.
If you take a lot of doors off,
I would definitely think this would be
something worth investing in and buying,
but if you're just DIY that's gonna do one or two rebuilds
it's probably not worth it.
So, you see we've got the door up there
and we've got it aligned and you can get it pretty close.
Now, if your put, just taking a door off
and putting the same door back on which we are here,
but it doesn't work because we painted the door,
but if you're just R and Iing the door,
taking it off putting it back on
and you're not painting the jamb,
a tip for you is to
mark where the hinges went,
and that way you can put it right back where it was at,
or many times where the hinges go is not painted,
or it's faded, the rest of the door jamb is faded
and it still looks better where that hinge went,
or it's easy to see exactly where it went,
so try to put it exactly where it was at
when you took it off.
Now, I know sometimes it may not have been aligned right
whenever you took it off,
so that wouldn't work in that case either.
But in something like this we can't see none of the lines,
because they've all been painted, sanded and painted.
So, we've just gonna get it up there
and get it as close as we can.
Then, we're gonna have some final adjusting
like we are right here.
Now, it's important to know what to adjust to.
You want to be sure that you adjust the door
to the quarter panel and the rocker panel.
Why? Because, those aren't gonna move.
We cannot adjust the quarter panel. It's a weld-on panel.
We can't adjust the rocker. It's a weld-on panel.
So, make certain that you adjust your gaps.
I'm talking about making the gaps,
making sure the gaps are just right to those two areas.
If it's off on the fender, well you can adjust the fender.
But if you adjust it to the fender first,
and make it just perfect up there,
and it doesn't adjust to
the quarter panel and the rocker panel,
well there's nothing you can do with that.
So, make sure that you adjust
to the stationary panels first.
And we've got that other door on.
Now we're putting this one on.
We're gonna follow the same sequence.
Now, one more tip I'd like to mention
while we're adjusting these doors and installing doors is,
whenever you're putting these on take the striker off,
because a lot of times you may try to adjust the door
have the striker help align the door.
You don't want that.
You want to make sure the door aligns correctly first,
and then put the striker in and adjust it to the door.
So, that way you don't have the striker trying
to pop the door up or down adjusting the door so...
And this is just a quick video
with a few tips about how to align doors,
but the main thing is:
make sure it is aligned well in this case,
because we can't do final aligning after the fact,
because we're gonna paint stripes on this.
We want to make sure all the body aligns,
all the gaps are correct, because after we paint the stripe
it's gonna have to stay there,
or else if you tried to adjust the door some later
after you paint the stripes on there,
the stripe's not gonna match,
so spend all the time you need at this point
to make sure that the doors are lined up correctly.
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