A tip for the ending issue with clearance, if you take the new piece of metal and try to align it with the tabs you can see if the tabs will fit through and if not then you can do a little sanding to open up the hole.
thank you so much for this video, my door stay guide snapped in half yesterday, i had very few tools, and i couldn't get the pin out to shut the door.finally fixed it cave man style to get proper tools to remove. following this vid to replace.
Thank you for all your excellent and thoughtful videos(and website). I have an 83 SC as well and have to do this. On another note, my SC did not have an oxygen sensor, so I replaced that and the relay on the unit under the passenger seat, but almost seemed to run worse. I’m not running a cat, but stock muffler. Scratching my head on that. Replaced the WUR with a new one, but still doesn’t really start the way it should. Runs strong otherwise. Guess I have more work to do!
With all due respect, the outside plate won't fit through the hole unless I grind it down and then it compromises the ability of the plates to stay in place. I tried it with similar plates and the whole mechanism just pushed through. The option then is to buy a new door and not stay with the original metal. I decided to put a plate on the inside with an eye bolt through it and use a strong nylon tie to link the door and the frame. It's a simple solution and will only annoy the purists. After all, it's a 50 year old car.
Hi Joe, Great Video ! keep the good work. i had to do the same for the same reasons. unfortunatly forme the damage inside where bigger than yours and i had to adapt 2 bigger plate. One question : in your set it seems that they gave you a glue to fix the plate on. did you use it? i would advise to do so, because in my case i figure out that with time and car vibrations the bolts seems to loose out and you might have some play between the metal pieces. i know that i have to redo it all over again cause i didn't use glue as well. keep posting man.
I must have a smaller outside hole as well. No way that outside plate is going through that hole. I will have to hammer it in, then try to fix the damage to the skin after.
@@ErrorMargin that hole has either been enlarged or is bigger than mine. I think it looks like the back part of hole has been cut out more. Anyway I had to make minor cuts and then hammer it in. Of course I tried different angles.
As the owner of an '81 SC, I definitely appreciate your channel!
A tip for the ending issue with clearance, if you take the new piece of metal and try to align it with the tabs you can see if the tabs will fit through and if not then you can do a little sanding to open up the hole.
Excellent detail!
I plan to do this with my 924S - very helpful to see you running through the process. Thanks!
Perfectly described thank you !
thank you so much for this video, my door stay guide snapped in half yesterday, i had very few tools, and i couldn't get the pin out to shut the door.finally fixed it cave man style to get proper tools to remove. following this vid to replace.
Thank you for all your excellent and thoughtful videos(and website). I have an 83 SC as well and have to do this. On another note, my SC did not have an oxygen sensor, so I replaced that and the relay on the unit under the passenger seat, but almost seemed to run worse. I’m not running a cat, but stock muffler. Scratching my head on that. Replaced the WUR with a new one, but still doesn’t really start the way it should. Runs strong otherwise. Guess I have more work to do!
You may need to reset your mixture again so it runs right with the new O2. Check my other videos for that.
@JoeEngineer Thanks man!
Thank you for all your good video work here. It is really tough getting a camera into the spots you did and get good video!
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I'll be doing this shortly.
thank you for making this easy to find on youtube and follow.
Good Job... excellent instructions.
I appreciate you creating this video, it really helped me!
Super helpful!! I need to do this to my car also
Thanks will be doing this soon on my 78sc
Thanks. Need to replace on my 76S
Merci beaucoup
At 20:10 Did you not try to put that wire on the 'outside' of that plate?
Aaah, 22:25 I see you did. Atta boy!
With all due respect, the outside plate won't fit through the hole unless I grind it down and then it compromises the ability of the plates to stay in place. I tried it with similar plates and the whole mechanism just pushed through. The option then is to buy a new door and not stay with the original metal. I decided to put a plate on the inside with an eye bolt through it and use a strong nylon tie to link the door and the frame. It's a simple solution and will only annoy the purists. After all, it's a 50 year old car.
If it works it works 👍
Hi Joe, Great Video ! keep the good work. i had to do the same for the same reasons. unfortunatly forme the damage inside where bigger than yours and i had to adapt 2 bigger plate.
One question : in your set it seems that they gave you a glue to fix the plate on. did you use it? i would advise to do so, because in my case i figure out that with time and car vibrations the bolts seems to loose out and you might have some play between the metal pieces.
i know that i have to redo it all over again cause i didn't use glue as well.
keep posting man.
How did you get the outside plate into position? It seems to be to big to fit into the hole
If I recall, I was able to maneuver it from the outside of the door, with the string attached of course.
I must have a smaller outside hole as well. No way that outside plate is going through that hole. I will have to hammer it in, then try to fix the damage to the skin after.
@@jamilwakil5085 I figured it out, the plate goes in angled, you can see it in the video here: th-cam.com/video/643aXunMmcg/w-d-xo.html
@@ErrorMargin that hole has either been enlarged or is bigger than mine. I think it looks like the back part of hole has been cut out more. Anyway I had to make minor cuts and then hammer it in. Of course I tried different angles.