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Since this 40 will run topless year around, I always knew half doors were in my future. The door’s that came with it were horribly rusted out at the base and would require extensive metal work to get them ready for the additional metal fabrication to create them into halfdoors.
An opportunity came up to get some premade halfdoors from a company called Sychopaths. The doors arrived via England and the box looked to be in pretty rough shape. Fortunately, the doors didn’t seemed damaged from the shipping.
Even though the doors weren’t damaged in shipping, there were several fitment issues that needed to be addressed in order for them to fit. The doors didn’t close all the way because the hit the lower rubber dash pads. Metal had to be removed and an indentation added to the door to close properly. Fortunately, the company covered most of the cost of the figment issue fixes.
Also added a door limiter tab to utilize the factory door limiter mechanism. Lastly added some nutcerts to be able to use the factory door grabs.
There was also this hideous partially welded seam that went right down the most noticeable part of the door IMO. I knew I couldn’t live with that so had the seam welded all the way up and body work done to make it look acceptable. Looks great after the work and body color matched paint.
An opportunity came up to get some premade halfdoors from a company called Sychopaths. The doors arrived via England and the box looked to be in pretty rough shape. Fortunately, the doors didn’t seemed damaged from the shipping.
Even though the doors weren’t damaged in shipping, there were several fitment issues that needed to be addressed in order for them to fit. The doors didn’t close all the way because the hit the lower rubber dash pads. Metal had to be removed and an indentation added to the door to close properly. Fortunately, the company covered most of the cost of the figment issue fixes.
Also added a door limiter tab to utilize the factory door limiter mechanism. Lastly added some nutcerts to be able to use the factory door grabs.
There was also this hideous partially welded seam that went right down the most noticeable part of the door IMO. I knew I couldn’t live with that so had the seam welded all the way up and body work done to make it look acceptable. Looks great after the work and body color matched paint.