C2 behind door panel questions

[John S.]

Worked on my 65 this weekend to repair the vent window crank mechanisms on both doors. This is a 35k mile original survivor fuelie that I have top flighted and am going to try and PV and get a Duntov Award. I started with the passenger side, taking pictures as I went along. By the looks of everything the panel had never been off. Original paper and Feb 65 dated panels. Car birthday is March 3 1965. Everything went fine and put it back together. Very happy with the results.

Removed the driver side panel and everything looked like it had never been touched either. One difference though from the passenger side. The plastic washer behind the door knob pull and the foam one behind the vent window crank are behind the paper on the driver side and in front of the paper on the passenger side. See pictures below. Which is correct? Has anyone else seen this. I would imagine that it would be very easy for one guy on one side of the line doing it one way and the other guy doing it opposite. That assumes that it was two different guys doing this on the line. Maybe John Hinkley would know?

On another note I have to repair the inner drivers side door where the bottom screw attaches the window channel. It was broken when I bough the car. See pictures below. It looks like the washer from the screw just wore a hole in it. I have the small piece that came out. I plan on fiber glassing it in from the inside. I am not going to repaint anything so I will probably just get a bigger washer to cover it up and take the small deduct during judging. Any opinions?

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[John S.]

Re: C2 behind door panel questions

So I am an idiot. Here is the pic of the door where the screw attaches.left door.jpg

[Edward J.]

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John, can not say I have seen that before, but the plastic washer on vent should be in front on the paper, Its a aesthetic thing, just so your not looking at brown paper through the door knob opening.As for the foam seal it should be in front of the paper to keep the drafts down while driving down the road at hwy. speed.

[Dale M.]

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When you do the fiberglassing on the inside of the door I suggest that you fiberglass a reinforcement on the inside as well. I would use a small piece of metal or a large washer under the fiberglass. This won't show for judging and help reinforce the broken fiberglass. Good luck.

[John S.]

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Great idea Dale.

[Timothy B.]

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When you do the fiberglassing on the inside of the door I suggest that you fiberglass a reinforcement on the inside as well. I would use a small piece of metal or a large washer under the fiberglass. This won't show for judging and help reinforce the broken fiberglass. Good luck.

Dale,

FWIW, the metal back of the window channel acts like a flat washer as it's fairly large where it sits against the fiberglass. Also, I don't know if moving that channel in further could make the window a little harder to roll down so be careful.

[John S.]

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Timothy,
I know exactly what you are talking about. will explore closely before I do any glassing.

[Dale M.]

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Great Points. Thanks for bringing this up. I replaced my channels last year and your are correct there is not much room to move the rear channel forward with metal and fiberglass. Maybe a flat thin metal and then glass it in outside of the area where the channel rides. But be careful.