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Old 09-16-2021, 01:52 PM   #942
Keith Seymore
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Re: Our Trucks Doing What They Did - Vintage Photo Thread

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Originally Posted by vintovka View Post
I always wondered how they assembled cabs especially the door openings. I needed to replace a door on mine and found many variations in door fit. Had to try like 5 or 6 and finally found one that was close but not perfect. BTW never back up with your door open, especially around trees!!
The doors should be pretty stable, since they were all stamped in one piece (ie, one die line for the inner; one die line for the outer).

The variation would be in the door opening as a result of piecing it together from all the separate bits. That's why vehicles today the door opening (or entire body side) is stamped from one piece: to minimize that variation.

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