- first, the drill starting points on the doors are not intended for door mounted grabs but rather to align with the body mounted grab points so the can pass through and help with getting a flush fit of the doors. I intend to use plastic shim stock, as suggested as an alternate in the instructions, to give the doors prototypical recess; so that material will also have to be drilled through after attachment.
- second, in my kit I actually received 4 identical baggage doors. Since all 4 open in the same direction on the car, 2 actually needed to be drilled on the opposite side from where they have started holes. Since the doors are L/R symmetrical I was able to easily clamp a pair face to face and use an already drilled door as a template for the 2 which needed reverse side holes for stationary grab clearance.
- Now, however, I will have to layout the actual door mounted grabs and starting points on at least one baggage door myself. So far I have not found a really satisfactory way to get adequate drill starting points on this relatively thin stock without creating indentation. The starting points provided on both sides and doors in the kit seem to have been drilled rather than punched. Unfortunately I do have a small, precision drill press or milling machine that would let me duplicate this technique (and execute the drilling for that matter). My thought at the moment is to need to make a plastic template for this; I would, however, be happy for any suggestions from the experience of the group.