Pella vinyl window repair

Garage walk door framed over foundation exterior beam lip,jamb sits on wood framing which has sawn(by the mason) half brick facing. The mortor bed has released 3 of the brick(loose but jammed in place). It appears that rain will eventually rot the base plate/jamb, so I'm trying to determine the best method to fix the issue before installing the storm door. Second part of my question is fitting the storm door into the 36" opening where the door frame sits only 1/2" each side adjacent to the brick mold(without a 1" filler brick mold is 1 3/" deep to the door frame). I had a sliding screen previously in this opening and 1" shim for attaching. Larson information shows 1"x 1" space required to attached the storm door. Will the 1/2 depth at each each of the opening present a problem?

Hi, So I have this bay window in my new home that clearly had some damage when we bought the place - there was a rotted section that they had stuffed dryer sheets into and then covered with duct tape. We pulled out most of the rotted part today. There's some sort of metal flashing tucked under it that seems to have done more harm than good - it looks like water was getting in there and rotting the bottom of the sill. The metal itself is also pretty damaged. I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions about how to fix this properly. [ATTACH]96037[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]96041[/ATTACH] Thanks in advance ETA: we haven't seen any sign of water coming in during rain storms since we bought the house. The previous owners seem to have applied some sort of tape/flashing around the underside of the window - don't know if that fixed it.