Door binding

[936cbpminor]

I have an issue with the passenger door where it binds with the wing. The clearances (using drivers side as reference) is very small but it just catches. I have 'shunted' the wing as far forward as it will go. Is there any fore/aft movement that I can do to move the door backwards. It has not dropped. Short of packing out behind hinges ...

[bmcecosse]

Packing it is...with steel 'slotted' to run down behind the hinge - without removing the screws - just loosen them. Of course - you need to check there is clearance from the B post...

[DAVIDMCCULLOUGH]

Have you tried cutting a little off the washers that hold the back edge of the front wing on? Sometimes this can give you an extra couple of mm.[frame][/frame]

[ManyMinors]

If the car is largely original, it is much more likely that the wing is the problem than the door. I had a similar problem with one of my Minors and found that removing the "hockey stick" chromed moulding at the front and moving the wing slightly stopped the door catching. I then filed out the holes a bit before refitting the hockey stick.
As David suggests above, altering the washers on the wing bolts can also help and so can putting a washer between the inner wing and the outer wing down the back end to bring the back of the wing "out" a bit.
If the door otherwise seems to fit well and opens/closes well I would leave it well alone and concentrate on the wing which is much more likely to have been replaced poorly at some time in the past

[ianmack]

I would endorse Many Minors comment, if the door fits well in its frame and opens and closes properly I would leave it alone. When the door opens the front edge moves forwards and also inwards. I solved this on mine by moving the wing outwards slightly to clear. I used spacers under the rear edge of the wing, using trial and error to balance alignment and clearance.

[936cbpminor]

Many thanks for all suggestions. The wings had been replaced prior to my ownership. I think the wing in question may have had a slight bump (a slight ripple exists) which I have removed.
Wing adjustment and hockey stick removal and realignining is the first order of the day and then maybe a shim behind the hinge.
Something for Easter I think!!