Okay, this is a really dumb problem to have, but I've spent too much time failing at this task and I'm mentally broken. I'm doing some interior rehab on the Suburban, starting with the door panels: replacing interior door handles, scrubbing and cleaning the panel, replacing all the retainer clips, broken/worn switches, doing plastic repair, basically giving it "the works" as part of my spring cleaning.
Now the issue: I've got a nice clean panel with brand new hardware, and I can't get the damned panel to hang properly again over the top lip of the door. I tried several times and altering approches: window up, window down, various angles of approach, trying to coerce the top to drop down with a rubber mallet. All this just resulted in the loss of seeral clips which snapped as I continuously fuddled around unsuccessfully to accomplish this routine action.
To top it off last night, the final straw occurred when I tried to flex the top lip of the panel out a little bit, which resulted in a large crack on the backside. Now I'll start my weekend--still on door panel 1 of 4--plastic welding the inside of the panel to repair my own damage.
This has had to happen to somebody else out there. I've been around these trucks half my life and have never encountered something that should be this easy, turn into something seemingly impossible to accomplish.
Now the issue: I've got a nice clean panel with brand new hardware, and I can't get the damned panel to hang properly again over the top lip of the door. I tried several times and altering approches: window up, window down, various angles of approach, trying to coerce the top to drop down with a rubber mallet. All this just resulted in the loss of seeral clips which snapped as I continuously fuddled around unsuccessfully to accomplish this routine action.
To top it off last night, the final straw occurred when I tried to flex the top lip of the panel out a little bit, which resulted in a large crack on the backside. Now I'll start my weekend--still on door panel 1 of 4--plastic welding the inside of the panel to repair my own damage.
This has had to happen to somebody else out there. I've been around these trucks half my life and have never encountered something that should be this easy, turn into something seemingly impossible to accomplish.