2 piece rear hatch

[disciplerocks]

Pics!

 

[4.0B2]

i may try to find one of these for 2 reasons...
1. opening glass
2. to keep my custom airbrushed liftgate, thinking about hanging it in my shed or something. its to awesome to paint over.

but i NEED a spare tire mount

 

[country0001]

Pics!

I'll put some up on my build thread tomorrow. There are some pics of it on there already.

 

[whocares]

Got my new one mounted today, had to shim it a bit. No rattles and I love havin the opening back glass

I had to do a little work to get mine working right too. Where did you shim?

 

[country0001]

I had to do a little work to get mine working right too. Where did you shim?

Where the hinges bolt to the body, I put a 1/8 inch washer on each side.

Would have taken pics but I did it myself, so didn't have the extra hands.

I love it, I love it, I love it. I can't believe that they didn't put those on all of them.

 

[TexCaliBII]

I too put an opening glass hatch on my 88 that needed a shim on the left side. I am going to add in the wiper motor from my Ex doner and put heating elements on the glass as no BII ever came with opening glass/wiper/washer/heating element. To make this work i will have to mod my carrier bracket a bit. I'll post that up when I do it. I wish I had taken pics when I did another mod that has prevented any cracking in my 87's hatch even after driving over Alaska "roads" for the last 2 years with a 31" spare tire mounted up and two -50F winters under it's belt. I expoxied in a steel plate I fabbed up and I think I still have the proto type of. It covered over the mounting holes and extended 4 or 5 inches beyond. I did that orignally to repair a wickedly cracked hatch on an '84 BII. I am going to do it for this hatch as well as it has a small crack in it above the carrier bracket. I iwll defintely take pics and post them when I get to this part of the build up.

 

[country0001]

Cool, make it detailed. I still have my wiper motor and heating element, might try it too.

 

[whocares]

How are you guys getting the heating elements off the explorer window and be able to re-use them?

 

[country0001]

I have no idea, thats why I asked for pics

 

[SR185]

Well, it's prolly worth about $10 in scrap, so 40 sounds good to me.

Fiberglass scrap?

 

[whocares]

I have no idea, thats why I asked for pics

You are no help at all.

 

[country0001]

Let me rephrase that. i have not had the time to investigate the procedure. But aren't those elements in the window itself. Therefore, the window would half to be removed from the donor and drilled to fit the hinges. That tells me that it probably won't happen for me, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[whocares]

Let me rephrase that. i have not had the time to investigate the procedure. But aren't those elements in the window itself. Therefore, the window would half to be removed from the donor and drilled to fit the hinges. That tells me that it probably won't happen for me, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.

lol, Ok, now you're a little help. I agree with that assessment. I think the elements are stuck to the glass, which still renders them useless because you cant remove them and re attach them. I was hoping it would be a direct swap of the rear glass, but I think I am hoping too much. I would like to have a rear defroster though.

 

[country0001]

I looked at the rear defroster, Its stuck on the window, so my question is , can you buy a new defroster "decal"? That way you could just stick it on the current window. I have the wiring for it and it just plugs into the window.

Plus, the defroster isn't much good without the wiper.

Don't think its worth the effort.

 

[whocares]

I looked at the rear defroster, Its stuck on the window, so my question is , can you buy a new defroster "decal"? That way you could just stick it on the current window. I have the wiring for it and it just plugs into the window.

Plus, the defroster isn't much good without the wiper.

Don't think its worth the effort.

You can buy them, I have seen them on some other sites. Come in different sizes with the switch and wiring....but they are proud of them, too expensive for me.