Trimming Door Stay Reinforcement

[jpearson]

I am trying to fit a door stay reinforcement kit on my '75. From reading other posts I understand that the outer plate of the kit needs to be trimmed a little bit the fit through the hole on these earlier doors. Does anyone have an example of how they have trimmed this plate down? I don't want to take off too much metal and weaken the reinforcement kit.

[boyt911sc]

JP,

I also need to install a reinforcement kit for the driverside door. What's the part # for the kit? Thanks.

Tony

[jpearson]

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[eastbay]

Same issue on my 75, sorry no pics. I just ground the square corners on the outside piece to a nice generous radius on the bench grinder and with a little finagling it slipped in.
You don't have to take too much off and I took the minimum since my door was really ripped up.

[jpearson]

I'm not sure if it helps since I don't have an unmodified plate for comparison but here is what my plate looked like by the time I got it to fit. I had to shorten one side (the end that went in last) more than the other.



For fun - here are the before and after pics of my door. I wish I had the skills that some of the guys on this site have! Hope to get primer on it in the morning.