AcesLow's 1973 Morris Pick up

[AcesLow]

Finally some real progress!! Door gaps are okay. Needs a bit of adjustment.

[AcesLow]

Well.  50.gif  passenger isnt fitting well.. even bracing it it moved.... i hate body work... Time for a Jack and Coke

[94touring]

How so? 

[MiniDave]

I've never seen a Mini with really good fitting doors, close panel gaps or even seams - remember, these were cheap throw away cars made in the height of the British labor troubles.....these were not made with Lexus-like attention to details. If they ran and the doors opened and closed....good enough!  ;D

Most Mini's I've seen - even ones that have had huge attention paid to the door fitment - still don't fit well after the door seal is installed.... so don't be too hard on yourself, you're not working with precision equipment here.....

[94touring]

That's true.   Mine usually fit good to great prior to the door seals then fit good to ok.  I've spent whole days shimming and adjusting a pair of doors and occasionally bending door seams to adjust the rubber seals.

[AcesLow]

I agree its not precision equipment. I had to open up the hinge hole 1/8 and now the doors fit. What is an exceptable gap around the outside of the door?

[94touring]

Basically what doesn't rub and looks decent.  They all vary from barely not touching to pushing quarter inch gaps. 

[AcesLow]

Clamp Tac Clamp Tac...

[AcesLow]

I cut the flange off the box panel. Fixed my door gaps.. Fully weld it and radius it and it should look okay.

[94touring]

That will do it!

[AcesLow]

In my mind its not right. But it works...

[AcesLow]

[MiniDave]

Progress! 4.gif

How long have you been working on it?

And what are those holes above the rear window for?

[Merlin]

I thin the holes are for a factory cover of sorts.

I can't wait till the day comes for me to fuss over door gaps for hours and hours.

[94touring]

The holes above the window are where brackets bolt that would hold a bed cover. 

[AcesLow]

Is that as far down as the tailgates came?? Been so long since mine was attached.

[MiniDave]

My buddy's lays pretty much flat, with a slight upward angle - but it seems much less than that....

[AcesLow]

Im exactly 7 inches from the bed floor to the center of the first hinge mounting hole on the tail light assembly... can anyone measure their pickup? 94touring???

[94touring]

I'll have my hands on mine this weekend and try to remember to get a measurement. 

[94touring]

I've got 7 inches too.   Gigitty. 

[AcesLow]

Hahaha. New tailgate struts maybe. How far does yours (tailgate) "hang" down? Is it level with the box?

[94touring]

Ha.  I don't have my tailgate hooked up so that I don't know.   

[jeff10049]

OH MY! your's isn't hooked up where do you keep it in between uses? I think I heard a song about this once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4

Oh wait, I see now were talking about tailgate's never mind.

[Mudhen]

OH MY! your's isn't hooked up where do you keep it in between uses? I think I heard a song about this once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4

Oh wait, I see now were talking about tailgate's never mind.

:D

I only got through part of that video...unfortunately, I can't now unsee it.   :(

[Spitz]

I don't have my PUP anymore....but I do know it lay flat...perhaps a very VERY slight incline, but not noticeable.
The pictured one is definately not sitting right.