Door Strike Frame Mount Issue-needing some clarification

[coloskydiver]

Need some input on if I am missing something here. The mounting plate when I line up the holes, sticks out past the jamb of the sail by 1-1/2. All the body panels line up and gaps look good so it makes me think I have to be missing something here. http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk100/coloskydiver/1C6F3A9F-234D-4279-9EBC-3EB6E90E5340_zpsw7sok2xc.jpg
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[Harley818]

In the first two pictures you have the wrong bracket for the passenger side.
You want the bracket with the angle facing towards the outside of the car. It will bolt to the welded bracket on the frame and angle out.
It mounts in behind the fiberglass for your door striker to bolt into behind the fiberglass.
The bracket actually mounts on the outside of the frame (not on the interior side).

Your alignment of the fiberglass looks good and is exactly like mine. i can see the fiberglass is almost flush with the bracket thats welded to the frame. I just tried mine tonight and if I put in the carriage bolts, they almost fit. It looks like I will have to enlarge the slots about 1/4 in to the rear in order for the carriage bolts to fit flush in the slot.

[coloskydiver]

Thanks for the info Harley. I knew the first two pics were backward adn was just trying to get an picture to show how far it seems off. I am just eye balling it but seems like the mounting plat is going to stick out too far but like you said, I will probably need to adjust the holes to make it work. Even when I line the holes up with the bracket on the inside, the plate seems to stick out past the fiberglass of the sail jamb by about a 1/2". Are you messaging the holes on the frame or the bracket itself?

[matteo92065]

I didn't think my brackets were going to fit with out modifications, but after playing with body, door, and bracket positions everything fit. Try playing with it more before you modify stuff.

[coloskydiver]

I got it close but does the bracket need to sit flush up against the inner fiberglass of the sail. The top sits against it but the bottom is still out. I may need to modify the slots on the frame.

[K3LAG]

I got it close but does the bracket need to sit flush up against the inner fiberglass of the sail. The top sits against it but the bottom is still out. I may need to modify the slots on the frame.

You won't get it to fit perfect because it's a flat surface against the curved surface of the fiberglass. I got mine really close to flush but not completely.

Larry

[Harley818]

Mine just needs a bit of work on the slots on the frame bracket. I could bolt it in where it is, but it would stress the fiberglass..... and I don't like that. Wont take much to get it to fit.
Colo..... the picture of yours could be mine its so much the same alignment to the fiberglass.

[tmoretta]

I ended up opening a hole in the fiberglass - mounting the striker directly on the steel mounting plate. This allowed me to get much closer door gaps.

[coloskydiver]

I was able to get everything mounted but the drivers side bracket on the frame need to be modified a decent amount. It was not the easiest thing to modify and wasn't the prettiest but got it to fit. I got the driver side door completely mounted after taking it on and off about 5 different time and about 5 hours of work. Now that I know what I need to do, the passenger door should go much quicker.

[Jaime]

Here's what I did:

1. Mount the bracket semi-tight, with the striker mounting face as flush as I could get it to the fiberglass.
2. Mount the door frame and use it to set the striker at a depth that puts the door frame parallel to the main frame.
3. Drill striker mount holes. A flashlight behind the fiberglass will help you see where the slots in the bracket are.
4. Remove everything, including the mounting bracket.
5. loosely screw the striker plate in, catching the holes on the bracket. At this point the only screws in the bracket are the striker screws.
6. On mine, the vertical part of the mounting bracket wasn't flush with the frame, so I bent it (vise and small sledgehammer) so it was flush.
7. Re-mount re-check and probably re-bend until flush.
7. Using a square file, open up the frame holes so that rear surface is flush with the rear surface of the hole in the bracket.
8. Screw everything together.

This makes the plate fit perfectly behind the fiberglass.

[Harley818]

I did the same thing and filed out the corners of the slots so the carriage bolts would fit as far back as possible. Then the bracket bolted right in without stressing the fiberglass.