| John provides some valuable help today, It's amazing what having an additional pair of eyes and another head can do to |
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| enlargen your perspectives, not to mention, the additional pair of hands as well. I had hoped to get the pin bolcks drilled and |
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| mounted in the door frame and then get the gas strut braces installed. Only got the Left door installed, but it is a very good and |
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| tight fit, which is what I was hoping for. Initially we had had to interpret the drawing on page 45-15 so as to drill the angle for the |
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| 7/16 hole properly , we both went back and forth on it, I'm still not sure we did it right, BUT it fits and it works. The bottom line is |
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| that all of the holes are built for a Very close tolerance. At the onset we had way too much friction in the whole mechanism for it |
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| to work and for the pins to insert themselves into the pin blocks. So we too the door mechanism apart again, and found the we |
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| still had a lot of frinctin in the door, we carefully sanded, 220, 320, 400, 600 grit the frictin bearing parts to remove most of the |
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| friction so that the door alone worked fairly smoothly. then we found where the binding was occuring on th edoor frame and |
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| slowly using the same process honed/reamed thos holes to provide a smoother fit. There is absolutely not slop in the door, but |
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| the mechanism moves more smoothly and fully engages the pin blocks and stops over-center. a LOT of hours for not a lot to |
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