After 15 years of service my doors and now clunking, rattle, wind noise etc. I've been pretty religious about keeping the hinges lubed up and checking for door sag. Actually, my issue was more so in the rear doors which the lower latch was a bit sloppy. I did a bit adjusting to align the striker pin in the middle of the latch gap and make sure the door made a full cycle in on the latch (both latches). Then you have to re-adjust your main door striker pin the same way middle of the latch notch and enough that you get a full cycle of both latches. This really tightens up the doors a bunch and seem to shut solid now and tight. 

 

As for door sag, you can check this by having the door open and lifting at the outer bottom corner and seeing if the hinge moves at all. If it does that means you'll need to do a door hinge rebuild. Don' let this go it will ruin your door latch eventually because of misalignment of the striker pin beating the top of the latch.

https://www.dormanproducts.com/p-24617-703-273.aspx

 

I'll be there tomorrow.  We can try it then.  Will need a floor jack and some 2x4, 4x4 or other blocks of wood.

Don't worry about it. No pins or bushings to install. I've still got to order them. I'll just get my local body shop to do it. 

I wonder if different grades available?  Last ones I got were doorman.  Not to impressed with rubber/plastic insert thing.  Maybe someone makes them with better poly material?  This was on a ford if that makes any difference.

Dodge is a bronze or brass sleeve.

5 hours ago, Mopar1973Man said:

Dodge is a bronze or brass sleeve.

 

7 hours ago, 015point9 said:

I wonder if different grades available?  Last ones I got were doorman.  Not to impressed with rubber/plastic insert thing.  Maybe someone makes them with better poly material?  This was on a ford if that makes any difference.

Yep there’s a mother reason not to buy a ford! Lol

Mike, just curious if you went through with the body shop repair? My drivers side is getting pretty bad. Just wondering what it cost to have it done. It’s hard to get motivated to do things like this yourself when you know they are going to be a PITA before you even start. 

Delayed this repair other things have priority.