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MEMBERS DISCUSSION AREA => General Discussion => Topic started by: fatrat on June 20, 2008, 08:37:25 AM
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These should be at the house either today or tomorrow.
(http://www.4xinnovations.com/images/gaurding/doorhingeassmlowres5.jpg)
Quick release door hinges. They come with an extra door side set for tube doors. I was going to just remove the OEM pin and do a quick release pin in the OEM hinge but these only cost $70 shipped and get good reviews.
Yes, I have to pay $70 for what you jeep guys get free! ;D
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Sweet! gotta love the Jeep for these kinds of things. Simple since 41.
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Very cool!
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Sweet! gotta love the Jeep for these kinds of things. Simple since 41.
True! To take a wrangler door off is as simple as opening the door, taking the little strap thingy off and lifting the door straight up (once the nuts have been removed from the bottom of the hinge). There is even enough room with the rear seat flipped forward to store the doors if you take them off away from home!
To take the taco door off is almost as simple once the hinges are replaced except you have to unplug the electrical connection and the door is heavy as hell plus you have to worry about the glass window.
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To take the taco door off is almost as simple once the hinges are replaced except you have to unplug the electrical connection and the door is heavy as hell plus you have to worry about the glass window.
just roll down the window. I have a glass window and that is what I do.
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just roll down the window. I have a glass window and that is what I do.
Good call!!!
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I don't remember what the company is, but I'm sure you can find it without much troubles. There is a company that makes on-contact electrical connections. When the door is shut, they'll touch, and you'll have power to your speakers, door locks, etc, etc, etc. When you open the door, the connection is broken, so you could easily take the door off without wires being a problem.
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I don't remember what the company is, but I'm sure you can find it without much troubles. There is a company that makes on-contact electrical connections. When the door is shut, they'll touch, and you'll have power to your speakers, door locks, etc, etc, etc. When you open the door, the connection is broken, so you could easily take the door off without wires being a problem.
That would be sweet! That should be pretty easy to fab as well with some electrical parts from Fry's. Thanks for the idea!
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No prob bud. I'm full of 'em. I just gotta have somethin' to remind me of the ideas I've had at one point or another! You ever consider buildin' a nice set of half-doors for your truck?
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Yes, I have to pay $70 for what you jeep guys get free! ;D
Feel lucky. There isn't anything like that available for non-Wrangler Jeeps that I know of.
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This is the exact design I was going to help Daniel make. To bad he cant see what I am talking about. (He must have forgot us.)
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Feel lucky. There isn't anything like that available for non-Wrangler Jeeps that I know of.
Uh huh!
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w241/fast64stang/Doorless/DSCN5460.jpg)
;D
I hear ya on the doors being heavy though. My front doors weigh 68 lbs a piece and the rears 42 a piece.
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I don't remember what the company is, but I'm sure you can find it without much troubles. There is a company that makes on-contact electrical connections. When the door is shut, they'll touch, and you'll have power to your speakers, door locks, etc, etc, etc. When you open the door, the connection is broken, so you could easily take the door off without wires being a problem.
That would be sweet! That should be pretty easy to fab as well with some electrical parts from Fry's. Thanks for the idea!
A lot of hot rodders use them for a clean look when the doors are open a car show. Also, some of the minivans use them on the sliding doors. I'll try to find a link for you. I was going to get some for the Mustang but never got around to it.
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I don't remember what the company is, but I'm sure you can find it without much troubles. There is a company that makes on-contact electrical connections. When the door is shut, they'll touch, and you'll have power to your speakers, door locks, etc, etc, etc.
Until you open your door and have no speaker, no door locks and no control over the windows. :D
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If anyone wants to make some quick disconnect pins for a truck, all you really have to do is cut out the hinge, get one of those long bolts with the threads only on the last half inch or so. (make sure the smooth part of the bolt is long enough to go all the way through both sides of the hinge). Then cut off the threaded part, and bevel the edge of the bolt. Then drill a hole to put a cotter pin through. Then when you wanna take your doors off, just pull the cotter pins, pull the bolts, and TA DA! No more doors.
You may have to drill out the hinge pin holes a tiny bit more for the bolt to go through though.
You don't have to buy any special pins, or hinges or anything. You can use the stock ones. And if you are worried about messin' them up, go buy some stock ones from a junkyard to build them out of. It insanely easy.
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(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/sluginxlt/hinge1.jpg)
(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/sluginxlt/hinge2.jpg)
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If anyone wants to make some quick disconnect pins for a truck, all you really have to do is cut out the hinge, get one of those long bolts with the threads only on the last half inch or so. (make sure the smooth part of the bolt is long enough to go all the way through both sides of the hinge). Then cut off the threaded part, and bevel the edge of the bolt. Then drill a hole to put a cotter pin through. Then when you wanna take your doors off, just pull the cotter pins, pull the bolts, and TA DA! No more doors.
You may have to drill out the hinge pin holes a tiny bit more for the bolt to go through though.
You don't have to buy any special pins, or hinges or anything. You can use the stock ones. And if you are worried about messin' them up, go buy some stock ones from a junkyard to build them out of. It insanely easy.
That is what I did to all 4 doors of my 95 XJ but I was too lazy this time. I would rather just bolt these new hinges on. ;D
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Haha that works. I'm all about savin' some money though! Especially when its somethin' fairly simple to do.
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Haha that works. I'm all about savin' some money though! Especially when its somethin' fairly simple to do.
Dude, I am usually the king of cheap when it comes to mods (ask my wife)!
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They didn't arrive this weekend like fedex.com showed. :bs) Hopefully they will get delivered tomorrow so I can throw them on before Friday!