rear and side door stays/stops

[MaTTe]

Hey ben, do you have some of these stays in stock by chance? My van doesn't have any, but i'd be more than willing to adapt something.. i was thinking fo designing something myself, but if you have original parts it will work out easier..

[ben]

stays?

[MaTTe]

the part that sits inside the door frame, and extends outward as the door opens, to regulate how far the door can actually open.

When someone took the hinges off many moons ago, they put both the top hinges on one side, and both the bottom hinges on the other side, this means that the drivers side rear door can touch the paint, so i really need to make a system up that'll stop this being possible, if you don't have any original bedford parts, i'll customise it..

[ben]

yeh i think i know what you mean. and yeh i do have some of those. the pionty things yeh? that bring it out to a certain point then if you want it to go all the way you need to push them and they go all the way round yeh?

ben

[MaTTe]

Hey ben, this is the sort of thing i was referring to.
My doors dont have the provisions for this, they have some sort of thin fragile looking flat metal hook, but the system here looks better. If you or anyone else has some photos of both the original systems, i'd be keen to seem them.

[Jeff]

That system will place a lot of twist on the door and pillar, so they need to be strong when the wind hits.
I was wondering about fitting a van back door strut to the top of the door, and maybe draining the gas out. It looks like CFJeff has something similar on his.

[Numnutz]

I have a couple of those hook things in the shed, They came in a box of parts with my van.
I wondered what they were,
Later today I'll have a look to see if the whole setup is there.

[MaTTe]

Jeff, thats a good idea, i have a couple of the gas styruts off my old BA falcon boot, i can attach one very easily, i was thinking a far more complicated system before..

Numnutz, i'd be keen to see a photo of the parts as an idea of what was originally intended.

Cheers fellas

[cfjeff]

Yep I removed mine from my back doors during the rebuild as they swug right round when the wind got up at shows. As they were at the height of the top edge of my tail lights when they swun round at full force it chipped the paint and left a rather nasty mark in top of the tail light moulding. So this time round I removed them completely and cut up an old seatbelt and pk screwed it to the back door and pillar. This used to be done a lot back in the hey days of custom vanning.

 And on my side door I have mounted a gas strut and drilled a hole in it to degass it. this holds the door open at shows and prevents it from swinging round to hit the passenger door mirror which also leaves a nasty matk in the side door paint work.

Cheers Jeff
 

[Dave]

The back door hinges are about the only part of my van that work like new.  From memory they look like the diagram MaTTe posted below and have never blown shut.  They only allow the back doors to open 90degrees unless you bend the thingy, and then they van fold right back into the paintwork, if I allowed this the dents would only make the dented panels match all the other panels.

Dave