Can anybody tell me if the rear doors on the wagon and 4dr sedan are the same. From all the research I've done it looks as if the fronts are the same, but I can't find any info on the rears. Just looking at them they look the same to me, hope someone on here can verify it for me. Thanks for all help!
I do not know for sure, but for what it is worth, on car-part.com they do distinguish between the four door sedan rear doors and the station wagon rear doors.
What is your question exactly? Are you asking about the doors or the window channel, and if the latter, WHICH "window channel"? The doors don't have to be the same for the window channel to be the same.
I'm needing the channel that goes around the rear door frame that the window locks into, and the outer window felt with chrome attached to it. Every place I've talked to says that they only have them for sedan, not a wagon. They "look" the same to me without measuring them. Seems silly to make 2 different rear doors, but I'm no engineer either.
Catalog listings are frequently wrong. In this case, I do know that the wagon outer window sweeps are the same as on a sedan. I believe the channel is also the same, but I'm not 100% sure. Engineers WOULD prefer them to be the same. Stylists, on the other hand, usually dictate differences. It all depends on how the sedan roofline matches the wagon. This Volvo 240 is a classic example of why you'd want different doors. As a cost savings, they kept the sedan doors on the wagon. Note how the line of the chrome trim at the top of the rear doors does NOT follow the roofline. This has always bothered me about these cars. It smacks of a low-rent cost-cutting move.
Old Post answer to the question... I have both a 1984 sedan and wagon the rear doors DO NOT INTERCHANGE!!! How ever door seals, window sweeps, glazing, window runs, locking mechanisms, interior panels, hinges, are all the same. The door shells them selves are different. If you look at your rear doors where the window sweep meets the panel a ledge starts and grows wider as you travel back. Unlike the front door... A sedan rear door does not have that ledge form the wagon gets fatter the farther back you go down the body.
This is because the 1977-1990 B-body wagons have a wider rear track than do the sedans. This was done so a 4x8 sheet of plywood can lie flat between the inner wheel housings. The wagon rear axle is different from a sedan axle, and the suspension is wider as well. The sedan rear sway bar won't bolt to a wagon as a result.
