Doors

I spent all day working on the doors and associated trim.  At the end, I didn't feel that I had accomplished much.

Since I'm accumulating parts that need to be chromed, I decided to work on the doors to figure out what trim screws were needed and what ones would need to be chromed.

I have a last collection of trim screws accumulated from both PF coupes.  However, with few exceptions, they are not labeled as to where they came from.  So part of the effort was sorting them by type and size and then counting each group.  That way, if a particular piece of trim needed six screws and several sizes would work, the group with six would get the nod.  However, that presupposes that they were all alike to start with and further, some of them could have come from either car.

The other quandary I have is the mix of both Philips head and straight slotted head screws.  I can't believe that Pininfarina would use a mix, depending on the trim location with the worker having to change screwdriver types as he changed the part he was installing.  To help me understand, I reviewed pictures I took of 2017GT, a FCA platinum winning concours car.

As you can see, these pictures didn't resolve my problem.  I've asked a couple of more knowledgeable people about this, but in the meantime, I just kept at it, using the same styles as on 2017.

At the end of the day, I had a bag full of various screws and most of the pieces of the driver side door jamb in place.

The door lock is working, but only on the safety catch.  I need to do some adjusting to get the door to latch on the primary catch.  The window frame needs a lot of adjustment, but I need a bunch of various sized bolts first.  There are nine bolts or screws that hold it in place.  I also had to put in a Heli-Coil for one of the alignment block screws as the tapped metal inside the door was stripped.  There were several holes that were filled and painted over that I had to locate.

So all in all, I did a lot of work, but didn't get the satisfaction of finishing a single item.  Of course, there are many more tasks to get done before the doors are complete and working properly.