Re: Body(door) alignment for '30 Town Car

Posted by Bob Carabbio on April 03, 1997 at 21:47:37

In Reply to: Body(door) alignment for '30 Town Car
posted by Lou Fuchs on April 03, 1997 at 16:28:03

Well-
Happy shimming.The most accepted way of doing what you need to do is to install rubber shims between the subrails and the frame at the body bolt locations in a manner that forces the body back into alignment.Since you've got an all-wood subframe on yours, the additional question of subrail condition raises it's ugly head.If there's extensive rot in the sub-rails maintaining an alignment may get trickey and perhaps thin, long wooden shims would do the job better.

You should check the alignment of the hinge edge of the doors with the frame (Equal gap at top and bottom)to make sure that the hinges or door frames aren't bent.

In any case you've got to find the point (or points) on each side that's too high with no shims, then shim everybody else up from there.The alignment of the doors with their frames should give you the clues.If your frame is sway backed, there'll probably be thicker shims under the center door post than at the ends etc. The alignment should be finalized with the shims in place and the bolts tightened.

There aren't hard and fast rules about it since every case is different.


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