Technical Model A door Hinges

Got my body on the frame and redone the windshield post from a bad chop. I put a 1/4 inch rod down through the hinges, doors are off, and got the right side in alignment. On the drivers side I got the top and middle to line up but the lower is about 2/3's of a hole off, in other words it looks like if I took it off the body and cut 3/16 off the back and put it back on, it'd line up with the other 2. I was told on here that they must be lined up before you can adjust the doors so is this the correct fix or should I stick the doors back on first and try them?

 

I aligned the hinges by bending the body mounted half of the offending hinge on the press. Before figuring which one to bend , mount the door side hinge half’s to be sure the doors are straight. You might mount the door without the middle hinge to see how well it hangs. That can guide you in determining which hinge needs adjustment. You need to get door gaps right on the hinge gap before correcting the back fit. Ford made a number of different doors and hinges for the different years and body styles. Some overlap, some are fully fitted in the opening. My cabriolet is fully fitted, but the closed cab PU is fully overlapping.

 

What year and body style A are you working on?

 

Sorry, that'd help, it's a 28 2 door sedan.

 

IMO...
put the 2 lower pins in... you can bend or twist the upper door better than trying to twist the bottom...
loosen the 2 top inside hinge screws a couple threads... press in the pin, then retighten the screws...

 

Those hinges have forged (or maybe cast?) body sides, so you can't bend them. But maybe you could space them in by milling off a little, or out by making a spacer. Moving them forward or back is easy with slotted holes. Or you could even heat and bend the A pillar in the direct hinge vicinity to move the hinge in line.

Then after the body is lined up, you can make the door hinges match.

 

Slow and steady and evaluate the differences with the hole aligned using each method of mounting the doors before you take to bending and heating anything.
Evaluation, then will hopefully lead you to the offending hinge or help you define what is the actual cause of the misalignment.
If you don't do it like that, you can get yourself confused and lost in the process which I can attest to.

 

I'm in the middle of it now, thanks for all the advice, this is my first time with one of these.

 

Hello from Down under ....l was wondering if anybody had the hole spacing dimensions for the front door hinges for a 1928 Tourer/roadster pickup .l have some hinges with no holes in them so l need some measurements in order to drill the holes in the correct locations.