Are you talking about the smaller white connector with the two wires? If so, is that not the power and ground? I can double check later tonight.

Thanks Joe. That would be a great help. The white plug that I'm talking about is the one that is attached to the side bracket, just above the yellow plug. It looks like there is atleast 3 wires in the plug, a red and two blacks. I know there is also an orange and black wire that are together that has been cut. I read on another thread that the orange is for power and the black is a ground.

I'll look tonight and maybe take a few pictures of what I find. I'm pretty sure none of my wires were cut, so it should be pretty easy to figure out.

Nice progress Mike, its coming along nice.

I forgot that I separated my seats from the mounts :wow:
I went up in the attic and looked at both assemblies. They both have a white plug, the only difference is that one of them is the tree prong plug you described with the red and two black wires and the other assembly is a two prong, just one red and black. I'm pretty sure that those are the power and ground wires. I would hook up a battery and try them out, but like I said the mounts are in the attic and the seats are in my spare bedroom. If you hook up a battery to yours and have any concerns, put a small amperage fuse between the + side and the red wire. That's how I would do it, but proceed at your own risk here... Let me know if there's anything else I can look at for you :lateral: :cheers:

I started working on getting the deck filler panel off. Overall it wasn't in that bad of shape, except for where they meet up with the quarters. If I didn't have this one laying around, I likely would have just cut out the rusty sections and welded in new pieces.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000433.jpg

Old deck filler panel

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000434.jpg

And it's off. Took about an hour and a bit to get the old one off. Just had to drill out a bunch of spot welds.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000436.jpg

It's in pretty good condition, just a bit of surface rust underneath. Nothing some por15 won't stop.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000437.jpg

New panel sitting in place, not welded in yet though as I ran out of 2" prep discs. Going to see if I can get a good deal on a case of them.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000435.jpg

One question I have though, where the filler panel meets the quarter panels, does the filler panel sit on top like it is in this photo or does it go underneath the quarter. I put it on top when I put the quarters on.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000438.jpg

A buddy of mine came over today and we tried aligning the doors. Unfortunately we hit some issues. We also got the subframe aligned and it's within 1/4" of the factory specs so I'm pretty happy with that. Back to the doors. We started with the passenger side and I got the quarter/door gaps to 1/8" and the body lines matched up nicely and thought it was good. Then I realized some other issues.

Gap to quarter panel. It's about 1/8"

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000441.jpg

The top part of the door is hitting the screw along the frame

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000442.jpg

I didn't take a picture of it, but the gap along the bottom is between 1/4" and 1/2". I know I can fill it in, but that's a lot to fill in isn't it? If I try and move the door down, the body lines won't match up. What about if I cut into the quarter panel along the gap and welded it back in place about 1/8" back?

The passenger side wasn't a whole lot better. The gap with the quarter panel was tight and the body lines match up pretty good.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000444.jpg

Along the front/top of the door, I have a gap that's about 1/4" to 1/2".

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000445.jpg

The rocker gap is good, but it's sunk in at the front. I kept trying to adjust it, but when I align the door to the quarter, this happens.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/P1000449.jpg

Any suggestions?? Tomorrow I plan on finishing up the deck filler panel.

Mike -- unless you're prepared to do a complete weld and grind - and add and fill.... REMEMBER that working with what you have is about SPLITTING the distance -- so it's half of what "would be" perfect... you can't expect an old stock body to have gaps that are like a high dollar custom build... just get them "good" - and splitting hairs here and a little there...

I helped with a 57 Limo -- 4 doors PER SIDE... we split the window frames to get the gaps at the top "right" --- and had to add welding rod to the door edge to close gaps up etc.... it's A LOT of work to get this old stuff "right".

Check out the way these had to be done:


http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...o/DSC00759.jpg



http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...o/DSC00609.jpg



http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...o/DSC00761.jpg

Look at how far this one was off:


http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...o/DSC00614.jpg

Thanks Greg. To be honest, I don't expect to have perfect gaps. I just want to get them so they look good. I just found that doors seem to be so off in some areas that I'm worried that I may have screwed up the quarter install. If I can get the doors to look good, I will be happy.