Removable doors write up

[lethal-threat-b288]

Lol, make some tubes and paint them or put sheet metal on em then paint em put a new vinyl stickers on em to match

 

[4.0B2]

lol, nothing on my truck is vinyl...
i'm wanting to repaint it, back to the simple anyways... and then do this mod for NO DOORS YAY!!!!!!!!! lol

 

[lethal-threat-b288]

heres my removable doors

i like it alot..... good writeup!

 

[The_Dealer]

Nice rig

 

[lethal-threat-b288]

thanks man, i plan on re painting my l/f fender/door to match the 2 tone.

 

[lethal-threat-b288]

here is my tube door design...

 

[birddog321]

How are the tube doors coming?

 

[bobbywalter]

i assume you rebushed this in each spot? my bushings fall out all the time though

with an open setup like this you dont want the actuator rod exposed...it can be bumped and opened when flopping or on hard bounces, fabbing a cable or protected link rod is still easy to do though will take longer but imo worth it.

 

[anthony1993418]

im doing this tomorrow!

 

[Gary101386]

This is something i do plan doing, but have a few questions first...

I have noticed alot of people are putting the bolts in from the bottom to the top, with the hitch pin at the top. Any specific reason? Personaly i would think putting the bolt in from the top and hitch pin at the bottom would be a more secure way... no?

 

[88_Eddie]

i agree, maybe a washer underneath the bolt head too. that way you dont have the metal getting chewed up as much, maybe even a bit of grease on it too.

 

[The Jester Race]

Bringing this back up. It's wet season here again, so it's time to put the doors back on.
I forgot just how big a pain in the ass it is to do.

Has anyone worked on a slip joint style hinge yet?
Like this.

Spring project maybe, after I get the 4.0L in.

-Jester

 

[bobbywalter]

This is something i do plan doing, but have a few questions first...

I have noticed alot of people are putting the bolts in from the bottom to the top, with the hitch pin at the top. Any specific reason? Personaly i would think putting the bolt in from the top and hitch pin at the bottom would be a more secure way... no?

Bringing this back up. It's wet season here again, so it's time to put the doors back on.
I forgot just how big a pain in the ass it is to do.

Has anyone worked on a slip joint style hinge yet?
Like this.

Spring project maybe, after I get the 4.0L in.

-Jester

i tried some home made iterations of that but it did not work the way i wanted...and never pursued it further as the junk i use works fine.


the slide hinges did not work out like i had hoped for the same reason the pins go up and down and not both down.

the curvature of the door and the hinge bolts on the door interfere a bit making sliding a decent pin in difficult or impossible if you properly bushed them.

by using counter sunk type bolts with an allenhead you can pop both hinges from the top sothe keepers are on the bottom.


you can make a setup likethe hinges jester pictured but you have to have a pos ugly dont care about the paint truck like mine along with modded fenders to keep from messing the paint up and dinging the upper body line.