Garage Door Lintel Adjustments Tips Anyone?

[71Dormobile]

Worked out with bumpers on will have literally 3cm on each side. Will be interestring

 

[71Dormobile]

May look at winching the bus in to the garage rather than drving it in.... Does anyone have the actual width of a bay including bumpers etc??

 

[AxlFoley]

dude thats going to be tight!, mine is similar, I just make sure the drivers side is tight, and i mean tight, about 10mm then i know the other side is fine.

you could go cal looK!

 

[71Dormobile]

Mmmm worrying that, 10mm reckon I'll end up taking the door back off !!! Yikes, could bolt some planks to the floor to use as a runner etc or winch it in anyone heard of such antics??

 

[damo]

Hello all
Found my way here via Kamperchat, and I hope I am not intruding as I have a 74 van not an early bay. Anyway, this thread interested me as I have been through a similar process to get my van away into a garage. I read most of the posts, and I don't think that my poor-man's solution was mentioned, so I thought I would air it. Though the pair of wooden doors look lovely, a cheaper option is to remove the garage door and all the up-and-over mechanism, cut down the batten at the top to the level of the lintel, and this was enough height to get in my Devon van with a poptop roof. The original garage door was then re-hung using a couple of large side hinges, and then a strip of thick industrial plastic (or old lino) attached to the bottom of the door to cover the 6" gap there. Then use a couple of padlocks for security.
My garage is not next to the house, but in a block nearby, so perhaps not the neatest solution for an integral garage, but certainly the cheapest.
Hope this info may be of help.
Good luck.

 

[matt-me]

Not an ideal solution but you could notch out a section of the frame to each door where the bumper will be, looking at your picture when the doors are fully open, allowing a little more tolerance. As i say not ideal but a solution.

 

[71Dormobile]

Crikey look how time flies, seems like only yesterday I was sorting this garage door. Anyway as an update bumper goes through no bother as does the van with the original now refurbed roof rack, result!