<VV> stuck door - update

[J R Read_HML]

Eric,

Set the car down off of the lift and the doors will work just fine.  I
assume this lift is one where the wheels are dangling and not on a flat
surface.

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Later, JR
'61 Rampside Standard
'65 Monza Convertible
'66 beater Coupe - icemobile
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Marschner" <emarschn@yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 5:24 PM
Subject: <VV> stuck door - update


> Here's the deal, folks.  I took my 67 Monza cvt into
> the body shop to get new rocker panels welded on as
> well as quarter panels.  I dropped the car off in the
> morning and got the call later in the day that the
> passengers door will not open.  Perplexed, as this has
> never happened to me in this car, I went over there
> this morning and indeed the door is stuck.  It looks
> like the door is not all the way closed, but it is
> certainly stuck.  The problem is, the car is on a
> lift, and so I couldn't get in there to see if I could
> fix it myself.
>
> I basically told the shop to go ahead and open the
> door via the brute force method when they could.
> (somebody get inside, push with their feet, while
> somebody presses the button from the outside). I hope
> it works.
>
> I'm 99% sure that, although there was some pretty good
> rocker rust on this car, the unibody has not overly
> flex.  The floor is certainly ok (no holes, etc)..
>
> Good news: they already have the new drivers side
> rockers welded in, as well as a section behind the
> front drivers wheel.  Looked like a great job to me.
>
> Eric
>
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