Door Question

[Irishman999]

I was reading a thread one time about a small difference in the length of doors. 73-80 doors were exactly a half inch shorter than 81-87 doors. Has anyone else herd of this?

 

[HotRodPC]

I was reading a thread one time about a small difference in the length of doors. 73-80 doors were exactly a half inch shorter than 81-87 doors. Has anyone else herd of this?

Never heard of that. Nope.

 

[davbell22602]

On the 69 crane truck the doors look like squarebody doors. Did they use test run the squarebody as truck body on the bigger truck before it was official on pickups in 1973? Its a GMC truck body

 

[RetroC10Sport]

Not that I'm aware of. But the big tractor trucks like the Brigadier and Kodiak were in production with the same body from 1967-to around 1990.

 

[89Suburban]

I was reading a thread one time about a small difference in the length of doors. 73-80 doors were exactly a half inch shorter than 81-87 doors. Has anyone else herd of this?

 

[Irishman999]

There was a thread I was reading about interchangeability between the doors. Our square trucks really divided into two body styles. Someone was asking if all the doors interchange and they do, but after they measured the length of the door everyone was saying the new style doors are barely one half in longer.

 

[HotRodPC]

There was a thread I was reading about interchangeability between the doors. Our square trucks really divided into two body styles. Someone was asking if all the doors interchange and they do, but after they measured the length of the door everyone was saying the new style doors are barely one half in longer.

Put some of this in your pipe and smoke it !!!

73-76 ALL PICK UPS& SUBURBAN-SAME PART#
76 BLAZER & JIMMY HAVE THE SAME #
77-87 PICK-UPS &77-90 BLAZER & SUBURBAN-SAME#

And I wouldn't be suprised if the differance in the 76 to 77 doors, might be some added holes in the assembley of the core of the door. Now I am not going to swear to the that. But I also beleive 77 was first year power windows were optional, so that is likley why the differant part #. I know I'm close if on target. Retro can verify exact year model I'm sure.

 

[Irishman999]

Im really curious if its true or not. Lets all measure our doors and see.....

 

[HotRodPC]

Im really curious if its true or not. Lets all measure our doors and see.....

Did you want length and girth or just.. Wait, you said doors huh??? OK, from where to where? Right at the body line or what? Everyone will need to measure in the same spot, but my bet is gonna be they are all the same.

 

[Irishman999]

Did you want length and girth or just.. Wait, you said doors huh??? OK, from where to where? Right at the body line or what? Everyone will need to measure in the same spot, but my bet is gonna be they are all the same.

Haha, funny.

I would say eyeball between the body line and the bottom of the door, right in the middle.

 

[HotRodPC]

I'm to tired now and running off to bed, but I intend to transfer this door size to another thread so we don't muddy up this good build thread. If I haven't done by Noonish CST, remind me Imann. Night !!!

 

[Irishman999]

Difference between 73-80 and 81-87.

Chevy trucks from 73 to 87 got the nickname of "square-body" but there is really 2 different trucks separated in 1980 (I think?). If you have anything to add for comparability between the two body styles please post here.

 

[Irishman999]

Okay, the subject discussed that lead to this thread is doors. I was reading that the doors are basically the same except the later body style has doors 1/2 inch longer.

I just Measured the drivers side door on my 85 GMC High Sierra half way between the body line and bottom and got exactly 41 3/4 inches.

How long are your doors?

 

[Irishman999]

I just ran out in the freezing rain and measured my door, made a thread about it in general discussion.

 

[76GMC]

I just ran out and measured my 76 driver's door at the belt line.

It's 41 and 3/4" wide.

No difference so far.