1935 Cadillac - GM Heritage Center

Fisher Body Service Manual, 1935
OFFSET WEDGE PLATES
Body men may run across a condition where the Door is in
correct alignment and yet the Door Wedge Plate does not
enter the Dovetail Bumper Assembly centrally. To overcome
this condition, Offset Wedge Plates are made available for
Service. These Wedge Plates are made so that the wedge
part of the Plate is offset -iz" off center, and are serviced
under Part numbers 4058056 and 4058057, Right High and
Right Low respectively. A Right Side High Plate, by simply
reversing it, may be used as a Left Side Low Plate. (See
Illustration No. 126.)
A Wedge Plate should not be hammered or bent off center
as this not only ruins the Wedge Plate, but bends the Plate
in such a manner that it sets up a cutting action which will
eventually damage the Shoes in the Dovetail Bumper assembly.
SERVICE ON WEDGE PLATES
Illustration No. 125
Roof Panel Dent Removal.
ROOF PANEL DENT REMOVAL
A small dent in the Roof or other Body Panel usually may
be brought out without removing the Headlining or other
Trim Parts.
Scrape the center of the spot down to the metal and tin the
spot with half-and-half solder.
Solder one end of a bar of solder to the tinned spot and
bend the bar as in Illustration No. 125. Bump up on this
Hooked Bend to pull the dent out. If the dent is a long one,
attaching the solder bar at different locations and repeating
this operation will raise the depression. After it is raised
it may be leveled by filing surplus solder off and using a
body spoon to hammer against to bring it down in spots.
Do not use a torch on the panel as excessive heat of torch
may buckle the Roof Panel badly and is a fire hazard unless
the Upholstery is removed.
DOOrV WEDGE
PLATES
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Illustration No. 126
In making adjustments on Doors, the operator before
starting to make a correction, should find out what condition
is causing the Door trouble. A few minutes' study of a
certain Door condition and the cause of it, may sometimes
save a lot of unnecessary work. For instance, some hard
closing Doors may be traced directly to the Wedge Plate
on the Door.
Illustration No. 127
The Wedge Plate may jam or wedge in between the Shoes
of the Dovetail Assembly too tightly making it necessary to
slam the Door with undue force to close it. A condition of
this kind may be taken care of by removing the Wedge Plate
from the Door and with a Hack Saw blade cut a slot in the
wedge part of the Plate approximately %" long. (See Illustration
No. 127 at A.) After cutting the slot, the Wedge
Plate can be compressed about rV" as shown at B in the same
illustration, allowing for easier closing of the Door.
There are also cases where the Door may be in correct
alignment and yet the front face of the Wedge Plate shown
at A in Illustration No. 128 binds on the inner part of the
Dovetail Assembly at B, making the Door hard to open and
close, besides causing a Door Noise at this point. Some Body
men in order to remedy this have been in the habit of grinding
the front face of the wedge on the Wedge Plate in order
to get clearance and in so doing have materially weakened
the Wedge Plate. For a correction of this kind remove the
Wedge Plate and with a flat sharp chisel cut away enough
stock in the Pillar so that the Wedge Plate can be countersunk
approximately into the Pillar thus providing sufficient
clearance at the inner part of the Dovetail Assembly
and allowing for an easier closing Door.
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