Build Previously known as the 'One Week Resto' now Pathetically keeping it alive... 500k

[JohnnyC]

Continuing with the little things… made a bushing for the oem soft doors… the hole was so big that the door was about 3/4 open and when I hit a good bump it would swing open lol

I was running a bungee for the last month so that didn’t happen

Came out decent … it works and is functional

Closes tight

Now if I can only find a lower weather stripping channel for this door…. This was a replacement I made 12? Years ago and it rotted off… the weatherstripping is holding it now

 

[Living in the Past]

How long ago did you replace the thread coming out of the handle to a screw? Did you drill and tap the handle to except the screw?

 

[JohnnyC]

@Living in the Past That happened quite awhile ago … one day it snapped off when driving luckily the outer and inner handles stayed put

I drilled it out and taped it… both sides are this way

I think it was the Dside that had broken off long ago and we welded it… but when it was time to recanvas the door I drilled and taped it

You just have to make sure the shaft it a tad longer than the handle so the screw bottoms out on the shaft and not the handle or else it loosens up because of the play in the square holder

If that makes sence

Works well … and to honest I was originally trying to weld on a stud … but looked like s*** and broke off a few days later … so went with plan B