Hello,
The pins can be a bit tricky to remove, but I found, keep them closed, and attack with the front door open. Use a jack handle cover in a cloth (to protect the paintwork) and hammer with a rubber headed mallet at the lip of each pin. It's a painful process but they do move eventually.
I have found a very slight weather strip issue on one of the new doors, but appart from that there great. I examined the rust on my previous doors a bit further. I remember reading at the time that early Omegas suffered from paintwork issues, affecting door edges mainly. Rust would creep inwards under the paint and appear as a bubble. Now I have looked at my old doors and the rust affects the top layer, it's not inside out. I reckon with a grind down, kurust and a skim of filler to remove imperfections, the old doors could be made good again.
For now, on the new doors, I'll remove the weather strip on my one affected door and kurust the area, then apply some hammerite or similar (it's under the strip so shouldn't look too bad).
When you have the doors off, this'll be the best time to swap all your loom and bits. You'll need to drill the window mechanisms out of each door and re-attach, unless you take the JCT Budget CDX approach
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Ideally it's a two man job, but I managed to get away doing it myself, I found it best to mount the door on the car, lock it shut at the latch, rest my weight near the hinge area, which allowed the hinges to line up, ready to accept the hinge pins, a tap in in much the same way they came out, and their on. My second door took 1/2 an hour start to finish.
The only problem I have now is how to dispose of the old doors, any ideas?
James
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