Morris Minor Owners Club

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 ...

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...

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]

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

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.

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!!