White Executive
2010
Teardown
Restoration 2022
Norman Julian
Well I am happy to report that the trouble I went into building this thing wasn't a waste of time and it works very well.
I did say yesterday that there are more adjustments needed for this car but I see it as a universal door carrier.
I haven't placed any of the nuts on the bolts to show you that you can lign it up with the car without any painted surface touching any other by accident.
If you want to raise it or lower it by just millimetres you can do that by those big wingnuts at the very bottom.
Well I am happy to report that the trouble I went into building this thing wasn't a waste of time and it works very well.
I did say yesterday that there are more adjustments needed for this car but I see it as a universal door carrier.
I haven't placed any of the nuts on the bolts to show you that you can lign it up with the car without any painted surface touching any other by accident.
If you want to raise it or lower it by just millimetres you can do that by those big wingnuts at the very bottom.
Norman Julian
Author
I have Loki watching that I'm doing it to his satisfaction!🤣🤣
Norman Julian
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2 doors on. This car being an early car the gaps are specs but even. I did right up a few months ago one engineer guy at Leyland at one stage worked for GMH and he thought the gaps should be a little wider because of problems they had with their cars flexing. Unfortunately for him this problem never arose with the P76 and the 5/16" gap is very noticeable.
Stuart Brown
Admin
I got a quote from a gifted panel prep guy to fix the gaps and it was about $2k. Involves rework of the folded edges and welding apparently
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Norman Julian
Author
Stuart Brown I adjusted the door gaps on the Targa. Welded down the sides and closed the gaps by a millimetre or so on either edge. The doors on the cars that came out in the early part of 1974 had their door skins folding over a little wider than was originally done. Remaking the dies was out of the question because it would have been too costly.
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Stuart Brown
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Norman Julian They are the two proposed options.
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Scott Wilkie
They look about right for the era. Note that light colours like white highlight gaps, & dark colours hide them. Also, if you obsess over a flaw, your eyes will be drawn to it every time.
Norman Julian
Offside doors on but far from happy.
The gaps are uneven and terrible!
That is the nature of the beast I'm afraid.
From experience you manipulate one area and it affects another so the object of the exercise is to get a happy medium.
The other thing is these cars were made at a time when one car on the assembly line was much better than another.
It is mainly the doors when put together that can cause problems because you have no 2 alike.
Anyway, I want to give you another tip.
Pictured is a hinge, backing plate, washer and nylock nut.
The only thing missing is the door frame.
The factory used nyloc nuts.
If you take the door off for any reason, test the nut by screwing it back on the thread and if it goes right through the nut where the nylon band is without resistance than the nut is usless at the job it was intended for.
If however you have to use a spanner to move it past the nylon band than it is ok to use again.
If it is loose just place a star washer between the nut and flat washer. No need to buy new nuts.
P76 Technical, Repairs and Restoration and Discussion Group
Norman Julian ·
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Years ago I had a weekend of inspiration (doesn't come very often these days) and I do most things on my own and as everyone knows that have restored a car when it comes to putting things like doors back on you really need 2 people. Well I thought about that and that is when I came up with this. It has more adjustments that you would ever need. From normal car ground level to 800mm above the ground. Tilt adjustment and fine height adjustments. Anyway, tomorrow I will see if it is up to all the time I spent on it.
Alex Shoobridge
At first when I read that, I thought “what’s Wanker”.
Then I looked at the pictures, and almost instantly thought “ that would be sooo useful”.… See more
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Norman Julian
Alex Shoobridge what's Wanker???
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Alex Shoobridge
Norman Julian “what a wanker” but apparently my phone decided that was incorrect and changed it.
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Norman Julian
Alex Shoobridge so let me get this straight you were calling me a wander mate, well thankyou very much!😪
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Ron Hick
Good luck.You will work it out.
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Julian Portelli
Thats a great invention, ive seen similar, but i just use a milk crate and a timber..good on you norm thinking outside the box
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Norman Julian
Thanks boys but wont celebrate yet. In the past failed experiments end up in the next door neighbors place.😆
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Joshua Morris
Nice handy tool! Definitely better than balancing the door on your upper leg whilst crouched down like some idiots do... (it's me, I'm the idiot.) Tried to convince the boss to get something like this a while ago for the workshop to no avail. Struggle on it is 😅🤣
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Rob Jones
Good luck
Offside doors on but far from happy.
The gaps are uneven and terrible!
That is the nature of the beast I'm afraid.
From experience you manipulate one area and it affects another so the object of the exercise is to get a happy medium.
The other thing is these cars were made at a time when one car on the assembly line was much better than another.
It is mainly the doors when put together that can cause problems because you have no 2 alike.
Anyway, I want to give you another tip.
Pictured is a hinge, backing plate, washer and nylock nut.
The only thing missing is the door frame.
The factory used nyloc nuts.
If you take the door off for any reason, test the nut by screwing it back on the thread and if it goes right through the nut where the nylon band is without resistance than the nut is usless at the job it was intended for.
If however you have to use a spanner to move it past the nylon band than it is ok to use again.
If it is loose just place a star washer between the nut and flat washer. No need to buy new nuts.