Re: Doors and

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

You mean there's no way to replace the pin and part of the door hinge that
bolts to the car to actually fix the problem?
    -Josiah

Mark A Peele wrote:

> 1) Assuming the front end of the door lines up with the fender properly,
> and assuming it's sag at the door bolt (rear of door), do what body shops
> do - put a jack under the door (with the door open), jack it up until it
> closes properly.
>
> This is a delicate operation (which I have done many times), proceed with
> extreme caution (a little bend goes a long way).
>
> 2) Unless you are taking it to redline in 1st and dumping it into fifth,
> or redlining in 4th and downshifting to 2nd, this will not hurt your car.
> Common sense does apply here. this begs a quesion - why would you want to
> do this?
>
> Mark . . .
> Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
> Previous Sciroccos: 1981S (RIP), 1980S, 1975TS, 1975
> http://home.t-online.de/home/Scirocco2/marc.htm
> --------- Begin forwarded message ----------
> From: Gregory Frenzel <fren0027@tc.umn.edu>
> To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Subject: doors
> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 12:35:43 -0500
> Message-ID: <3619036F.34B55D49@tc.umn.edu>
>
> I  heard that this thread was happening just before I joined, can we
> visit it again?   just something minor lilke adjusting the bottom door
> hing on the drivers side door so it'll close easily and properly.   I've
> already tefloned it, do I need new pins?
>
> second, I have a friend who is learning how to drive a clutch-- late
> bloomer--, he's wanting to know some background information.
> Specifically, what we've all heard before, that it hurts the car to skip
> gears either down or up shifting.   I told him that I couldn't possibly
> see how, unless he wasn't working the clutch right i.e. all the way.
> If we can't get this resolved no biggie, it's only an Integra
>
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