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I vote used OEM doors as well. Most aftermarket OEM-replica body parts usually fit like junk.
New Door Shell, or Just Buy Whole Used Door?
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Used doors for sure. You can drive half way across the country to buy used doors faster than you can get aftermarket sheet metal to fit properly.
And a lot of the aftermarket stuff is paper thin and might be beat to hell by the time the shipper gets done with it.
And a lot of the aftermarket stuff is paper thin and might be beat to hell by the time the shipper gets done with it.
kenh
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I would vote for used doors from one of the rust free states. It's easy to transfer the interior parts to the "new" doors.
Ken
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Personally I’ll use a OEM door over a reproduction part. You can get them pretty cheap out of junkyards from the west coast no rust no damage.
The aftermarket sheetmetal parts for a gmt400 are stamped and formed on the dies and presses that they dismanteled in Detroit and Pontiac a d Gary Indiana and Canada and shipped to Mexico and Brazil.
Punch presses and line presses and extrusion presses bigger than your house were taken apart and moved to south of the border.
After 2008, dismantling was the biggest employer in Detroit.
And for the next 5 or so years,
The only employer in Detroit.
I cant believe that we all agree to live this way.
Kick the ***** out. Every gadamn one of them
Punch presses and line presses and extrusion presses bigger than your house were taken apart and moved to south of the border.
After 2008, dismantling was the biggest employer in Detroit.
And for the next 5 or so years,
The only employer in Detroit.
I cant believe that we all agree to live this way.
Kick the ***** out. Every gadamn one of them
PEIslander
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Does anyone know what a factory regular cab door weighs (empty- just the door)? I'm trying to determine if I can get one shipped via Canada Post.
Hipster
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Idk how they do it up there but here you're usually looking at truck freight especially if it's in a wood crate or strapped to a pallet.
Hipster
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The original dies may have gone Mexico and Brazil to finish out production runs but most aftermarket sheet metal originates in Taiwan and has nothing to do with oem dies. Mid to late 2000's was a mass scrapping effort. Stuff from Detroit, cash for clunkers program,etc and mass shipping of steel to China during that time frame to help feed their industrial revolution. A lot of stuff from Detroit got recycled.
Yep, the aftermarket stuff is now mainly asian.
But, in a lot of cases they are using the dies that they bought from south of the border.
Which are now worn to hell and have been patched up over and over again.
The presses are still in south america being used for new production but are ancient.
Ive been in the metal fab and QC business since 1990.
I know what happened and it is all bullshit
our tax dollars at work
Kens1990K2500
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It's so sad our political and corporate 'leaders' sold out our manufacturing capability, for short term profit.
