Hey guys,
So, I can't figure this one out, and it's driving me nuts. A little back story to explain it though..
A couple years ago, I blew my original T-86/overdrive apart (The carnage was impressive). During the repair, I decided to convert to a T-85C with the R11 overdrive; and adapted a hurst three speed floor shifter to the car. During the time the car was down, I took the opportunity to repair my front floors. The driver side was naturally the worst, and the passenger side was only moderately damaged. During the repair, I put jacks at the bottom of my firewall, to support the car and lift it back into place; which helped align my door jambs from the collapsed floor mounting points. My welding and fabrication skills have vastly improved, and I wouldn't let the job out of my shop now; looking the way it did then. However, it was better then what I had.
In the ensuing months, a floor creak developed. It was a annoyance, bothered me, but I for the most part ignored it due to larger issues (Like spinning a rod bearing). However, now, the creak is driving me nuts. I am also have a bad problem with a door rattle; coming from the door latch itself moving against the striker plate. I have adjusted the striker plate several times, and it goes away for a while; but a couple weeks later it returns. I've also tightened the front most body supports; which I found loose a month ago. While the car was on the lift, I also checked my welds at the end of the body supports, and they are still holding (They look minimally done to my eyes now; gosh I hate being young and impatient!).
Other things I do know. My frame is cracked in the usual places; on the bottom plate at the big front cross member (Haven't been able to get to that yet). My wife says she doesn't hear any creaks from the passenger side floor. The drivers door latch and striker are a matched set of my parts car '57 Clipper, which have worked quite well until the past couple months. I also have added door seals on the door itself, to butt up against the seemingly too thin reproduction door seals I have. (Which greatly cut down wind noise and water leaks.). The lower door hinge on my drivers door is worn and has some movement, but I don't know if that could be causing the problem.
I got big plans for the floor of my car in the future, starting from complete scratch to get the car much stiffer for handlings sake (Part of the long term goal of my never ending build); but until then I want it to feel more solid on the drivers side front of the car, and be preferably noise free. Its not uncommon for me to work on high end European cars, so maybe I'm expecting too much from the stock set up.
So, guys, any ideas? Did I make a too weak door sill on that side of my car? I did have to weld new metal even under my door pillar (below the bottom door hinge), to approximately half way across the door opening to weld to solid original metal in the sill. Possibly the metal was too thin? Would this door creak affect the door and latch?
Sorry for being long winded, just can't figure this one out and it's driving me nuts (The car is a daily driver)!
So, I can't figure this one out, and it's driving me nuts. A little back story to explain it though..
A couple years ago, I blew my original T-86/overdrive apart (The carnage was impressive). During the repair, I decided to convert to a T-85C with the R11 overdrive; and adapted a hurst three speed floor shifter to the car. During the time the car was down, I took the opportunity to repair my front floors. The driver side was naturally the worst, and the passenger side was only moderately damaged. During the repair, I put jacks at the bottom of my firewall, to support the car and lift it back into place; which helped align my door jambs from the collapsed floor mounting points. My welding and fabrication skills have vastly improved, and I wouldn't let the job out of my shop now; looking the way it did then. However, it was better then what I had.
In the ensuing months, a floor creak developed. It was a annoyance, bothered me, but I for the most part ignored it due to larger issues (Like spinning a rod bearing). However, now, the creak is driving me nuts. I am also have a bad problem with a door rattle; coming from the door latch itself moving against the striker plate. I have adjusted the striker plate several times, and it goes away for a while; but a couple weeks later it returns. I've also tightened the front most body supports; which I found loose a month ago. While the car was on the lift, I also checked my welds at the end of the body supports, and they are still holding (They look minimally done to my eyes now; gosh I hate being young and impatient!).
Other things I do know. My frame is cracked in the usual places; on the bottom plate at the big front cross member (Haven't been able to get to that yet). My wife says she doesn't hear any creaks from the passenger side floor. The drivers door latch and striker are a matched set of my parts car '57 Clipper, which have worked quite well until the past couple months. I also have added door seals on the door itself, to butt up against the seemingly too thin reproduction door seals I have. (Which greatly cut down wind noise and water leaks.). The lower door hinge on my drivers door is worn and has some movement, but I don't know if that could be causing the problem.
I got big plans for the floor of my car in the future, starting from complete scratch to get the car much stiffer for handlings sake (Part of the long term goal of my never ending build); but until then I want it to feel more solid on the drivers side front of the car, and be preferably noise free. Its not uncommon for me to work on high end European cars, so maybe I'm expecting too much from the stock set up.
So, guys, any ideas? Did I make a too weak door sill on that side of my car? I did have to weld new metal even under my door pillar (below the bottom door hinge), to approximately half way across the door opening to weld to solid original metal in the sill. Possibly the metal was too thin? Would this door creak affect the door and latch?
Sorry for being long winded, just can't figure this one out and it's driving me nuts (The car is a daily driver)!
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