Today, I woke up from my on-going nightmare of 4 weeks of working on panel alignment. I have the driver's side aligned as best as possible. I have 3/16" of shims on the top cowl bolt and I need to remove 1/16" to push out the fender to even it with the door. The door to quarter jamb still needs a bit of work, though. The top half of the door is leaning in and not even with the quarter. I haven't decided to either use a block of wood and twist the door or make a slice in the quarter just inside the door jamb. The driver quarter, as opposed to the passenger quarter, is thicker on the top edge than the door. Passenger quarter narrows up and is even with the door as the top edge transitions into the door. With that, I'm leaning towards surgery on the quarter.
The fender will need a bit of work where it meets the rocker as well. The two are not following the same contour, so I'll have to work on that. Also, towards the top of the fender it lays in past the door as it gets to the top edge. Looks like I'll have to make a slice on the fender just inside the fender-to-door gap to work that even with the door.
With that work left to be done, the shimming process on the driver side is DONE! I'm still working on the passenger side, but seems I'm making better progress today than I have in the past 4 weeks. Can I get an amen?
