Re: [A/S] AS door is bowed

[Jerry Flanders <jeflanders@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had the door pop open at 50 MPH in the Yukon on an Alaskan trip in '01 
and had to deal with that kind of a bow. When the door slammed back against 
the body it straightened it noticeably. What I did was make a wooden spacer 
about two inches long (made it from a piece of 1 inch wooden dowel, as I 
recall). I placed this spacer at about the center of the door between the 
door and the frame. Then a friend and I pressed simultaneously at the top 
and the bottom to bend it back into shape. (One-two-three-push, 
repeatedly). Took only 10-15 mins once the spacer was ready.

It worked, and we had pretty good control over the bending. It would only 
bend a bit at a time, so we just worked until it fit right and stopped 
then. I had started with a shorter spacer, maybe an inch or so, and found 
that the normal flexing of the door wouldn't let me bend it until I went 
with the longer spacer. Somewhere around two inches seemed about right.

Good luck.

Jerry