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I'm working on a restoration of a 68 Corvette Convertible. The car was in pieces when I bought it.
Now I've gotten around to installing doors, and my question to all you wise people out there is:
would you use the original 68 door alignment / wedge kit, or would you instead use the one for a 69?
I have a running 69 convertible in my garage, and the doors on this car are aligned and closes easy.
I have no experience of doors on the 68.
I guess there was a reason for GM to change.
Maybe the reasons is that the solution on the 68 wasn't that good. :-)
I have done other changes on this 68, added improvements that was added on the later modells, reinforcements etc. I'm not restoring a NCRS car
My 2 cents; on a 68 i installed the 68 design wedges in the wrong place and over traveled the wedge and had a dilly of a time getting the door back open LOL's!
I would install the 68 wedges and be very careful.
The 68 wedges were also used for 5 years on all 63-67 convertibles, so they must have worked at some point. It may be that they didn't work as well with the heavier 68 doors? Actually, I think the bigger brass 69 wedge may not have worked as well as Chevrolet had hoped either, because on 70-75 convertibles the wedges were replaced with a chrome alignment pin and a brass lined receiver at the top of the doors and lock pillars.
I think the bigger brass 69 wedge may not have worked as well as Chevrolet had hoped either, because on 70-75 convertibles the wedges were replaced with a chrome alignment pin and a brass lined receiver at the top of the doors and lock pillars.
I would gladly go for the 70-75 solution, but that would be a lot of work to change the mounting for this. While the 69 solution at least removes the worry that the door goes over and get stuck. Maybe that the 69 solution was a quickie for GM at the time, it solved at least one issue, and that the engineers came to a better solution for the model year 1970.
68 or 69 Door Wedge - alignment
