well i was driving home from work and i saw this stripped 4-runner so i pulled a uie and drove up to this guys house started talking to him and he said he has to doors out back and i can have them for 20 bucks so i came back the next day picked them up and he said he has a glass rear window back there too so i got that also

then i got home and looked at them oh my god!!! rust free clean i was going to just swap oit my power windows and locks and after i got everything out of the new dooner doors i said yeah right to lazy so then i started to tape off and cut i think they came out looking really good hats you guys think???

the before picture

then a few bunch of everything else hope you likey





after gutting them



me and my toy




yes this is the welder i used but it works





and what they look like on my rig!!!





so whats you guys think??? money well spent?

 

i like em. i wish i had an old truck i can chop on.. but i currently only have one. so how do you open the door? as in unlatch it?

 

so you cut up some clean doors for some ghetto half doors awesome

 

you should have cut your original doors, and saved the ones you just bought. but either way, looks good.

 

Looks good. Personally I wouldve cept the window frame for a cleaner finish, but otherwise good stuff.

I hope I find find a set of nice(ish) 3rd gen doors to hack up.

 

yeah thats what i was thinking to is keeping the frame there for a real clean look but i though of that after i made the first cut and by then it was to late

like i said though there clean other then one rust spot on the a pillar but they where really cheap and i was going to use them for my truck and cut up my doors but thats way to much work removing the non power stuff and putting in all my power stuff as i have power windows and locks but mah

and as for the door opening oh yeah i kept real clean and didnt put the handle on it i just dont like the way it looks that way heres some more pictures of the doors

the door open when you push on this lever kinda funny but it works with out the big handle on the top i wanted it clean so this is the way i made mine and boy the metal on these doors are thin!!!!!!!

wow this up load is taking forrrrrreeeeevvvvvvvvvveeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


ok its stuck on 71% so ill post the other pictures whenever its done guys

 

ok so i redid it heres the latch thingy


heres the back side of the door


heres the door open

 

seems the sawzall got a hold of your driver front fender too!

 

You gotta keep an eye on those things, they have a mind of their own.

 

Ya they do look what mine did.

I parked my 4runner out in the garage and forgot the sazall was left plugged in this is what i came out in the morning to.

 

So you reach your finger into the door, to push the "latch thingy"?

 

the half doors look pretty good, I guess. Just gotta throw some paint on them to cover up the booger-welds. What seats are in the truck? They dont look stock...

 

yeah i just got a grinder from work so there all smooth now and im going to throw a lil bondo on them for even better smoothness and im still putting the door panels on them and cutting them so they fold over the top part and yes you put your finger into the hole and it goes pop on the latch thingy lol but hey its my first time doing this so i think they look really good

 

dude im sry, but you are the man, and hell yea money well spent.

 

Functional and cheap... looks good to me.

 

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You kick ass man. Seriously.... great mod, $20 very well spent.

My boss once told me "sometimes, you just gotta use a little brute force and ignorance".

 

I perfer to cut the doors with an angle grinder. There's a lot less fibration than using a saws all.

 

Cut-off wheels rock! So do torches and plasmas but hell they turned out decent. It will be a good idea to seal off the ground down welds with some type of Bondo, caulking, or body epoxy before paint because flux core wire has a habit of resisting paint in a real bad way and those welds would likely be rusting VERY quickly no matter how much paint you throw over them. Hit them with a wire brush and grind smooth, then clean with acetone, vinegar etc. Not sure how much you know about welding or anything I just wanted to throw you a tip from experience. I would have kept my original doors too.

 

yeah there 1990 mitsu eclipse GSX seats i took them out when i sold the car and yes they bolt in kinda the back bolts are good but you have to weld in the front mounts thats the first mod i really ever did to my rig and boy are they comfy!!!

 

and yes i still do have my sr5 doors there in the shed and yeah i did ground down the welds so there nice and smooth then rewelded the bad spots and grinded some more and now i clean them up real nice and throw a coat of bondo on them and on my luch at work tomorrow ill be sanding them down and seeing how they look from there i do have some update pictures but im a lil lazy ill be takeing more tomorrow so ill just post them all up then and yes i still do have the door panels and yes there going back on and im going to cut them so they fold over the top part to protect them a lil more sorry i just didnt get to it fast enough you beat me to it lovmeye22re lol