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72 Notch door into 71 Fasty - can it be done, and how?
Lo-tech - May 13th, 2021 at 05:38 PM

Ripping into the brown beast in search of rust (which isn't being hard to find). Drivers' side door is rotten inside all the way along the bottom seal channel (it's missing 10mm of steel most of the way as well as being holed in patches along the inner vertical face), but I know where I can get a basically solid one. Problem: It's a 72 notch with three-hole hinge plates.
So the question is this: Are these doors identical apart from the three-holed hinge plate on the body side? And has anyone successfully knocked the pins out, swapped in the two-hole plates from a fasty and got the swap to work? Anything else involved in the swap? Cheers...


vw54 - May 13th, 2021 at 06:36 PM

exactly same doors just use 2 screws


bushed - May 14th, 2021 at 11:01 AM

preheat pin-hole and then lube...while hot. more heat and punch it out...best while door is off .needs a good hardened punch


Lo-tech - May 14th, 2021 at 11:25 AM

Cheers for your help, guys...Gonna pull the trigger on this thing.