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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 01:02 PM
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making 4runner doors like jeeps doors..

Well all know how jeep doors work. You unhook a ribon lift the door and put the door in the garage. When you put the door back it goes right back on..no straightening or anything. Is there a way to make the 1st gen 4RUNNER doors liek that? It would involve taking off the hinges and welding jeep parts to the door frame. And then welding parts off of the JEEP DOOR to the toyota door. Would it work,have you done it, or d o you have a BETTER idea?
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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 01:15 PM
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Not only do people do it but you buy em that way. I don't know any vendors but I have seen them around quite a bit.
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Old Mar 15, 2005 | 04:16 PM
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Who? Where? Let me know! NOW!!
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Old Mar 15, 2005 | 04:18 PM
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check pirate, what you might could do is take the door hinges from a suzuki sammy and attack them to the outside of the door, granted that you make some bracketry to make the outside door skin hold up, then you just screw it into place
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 08:56 AM
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http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showp...45&postcount=3

at the bottom
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 09:13 AM
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thats sounds sweet - I want to do that on my tacoma - prob would be more difficult with the electric windows and such

plus I'd probaly royally ˟˟˟˟ things up
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 10:05 AM
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ive got electric windows on mine, what you would do is get some quick connect pins and put them in wire line prob solved, you can get those at any hobby shop that deals with rc cars and planes, ie hobbytown
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 01:30 PM
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I did my quick release doors today. Its so simple!

I did this on my 81 Pickup...

Materials:

4 (four) 5/8'' x 3 1/8'' hitch pins
4 (four) Cotter Pins
Hacksaw
Hammer
Chisel Tip Punch
Vice Grips
WD-40

Process:
Take the hinges off the body (Or you could do it on the body, I happened to have extras lying around)
Grease the hinges w/ WD-40 to make sure everything will slide out nicely
Saw the middle of the stock hinge pin
Clip the vice grips on the end of the stock pins and pull them out (they should come out if you greased them w/ WD-40) If not...
Take the chisel tip punch and and put it between the sawed pieces, and tap lightly to loosen the pins
Slide the pins out with use of up/down/out motion of the vicegrips
The 5/8'' pins area perfect fit into the holes. Make sure and try not to bust the copper sleeve in the hinges.

Bolt on, slide hitch pins in and push the cotter pins in to hold everything. I have no problems with door slop and everything lines up fine. It takes me 2 minutes to do everything (on/off).

Final cost: $10.00 and about an hour and a half. (would have been less time, but I made a mistake on the first hinge and had to find a second one in my shed).

PM me w/ any questions
Ian
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 06:09 PM
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Yea but you can't buy them that way.
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 06:12 PM
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you could get tube doors from all pro www.allprooffroad.com
or Front Range Offroad.
they are pretty sweet looking
Marlin has a set too.
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by redplastic2p3t
ive got electric windows on mine, what you would do is get some quick connect pins and put them in wire line prob solved, you can get those at any hobby shop that deals with rc cars and planes, ie hobbytown
Pop the rubber seal out of the body where the harness enters, and right behind it is a factory connector you can simply disconnect.
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Old Mar 17, 2005 | 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Mavericktoy81
I did my quick release doors today. Its so simple!

I did this on my 81 Pickup...

Materials:

4 (four) 5/8'' x 3 1/8'' hitch pins.....
???? The hinge bushing dia is 0.3149" (8MM)

I used 5/16" stainless steel cap screws w/ a 3" shoulder and sawed of the unneeded threads. I drilled a 0.100" dia thru hole in the bottom part of the pin, then used a 0.093 dia hitch pin to keep'm in place.

__________________________________

I've been driving the rig both doorless and w/ Tube doors for several years. Both setups work great for slow speed crawlin', but if you plan on doin' any dirt road travel, you'd better bring MX Goggles, and on breathin' in a ton of dust.

My interior is basicly trashed...and the dust has killed two CD players.

So, I'm in the process of building some half doors to provide good visability, yet offer some protection from the dust. The majority of the dust comes in right at the door sill since it's exposed directly to the tire. One of my wife's freinds makes soft tops and soft doors for Heeps - she's gonna make me a set of velcro attached panels/windows for the half doors.

Later

Last edited by crawler#976; Mar 17, 2005 at 07:08 AM.
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Old Mar 17, 2005 | 01:32 PM
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thanks for the tip man.
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Old May 11, 2011 | 10:21 AM
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Check thread dates man.... Way to bump an OLD post lol
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