Jeep: Taking the doors off

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:00:11 GMT, "Dale Atkin" <com>
wrote:
 

Why can't you get the hinges off? Are you stripping the bolt? I just
recently had a problem with trying to get the windshield bolts off
(putting on a rack). I was using one of those multi size torx sets and
you can't get a lot of leverage with it. I ran to sears and got a
socket and popped them right off.

--Brian

Yep, one of those multi-size sets. It was all I could get. I'll keep looking
for the right size (maybe next time I'm in Sears). T-40 right?

Dale


"Brian Chamberlin" <com> wrote in message
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Hi Dale,
If the door opens and closes that means that the pin is indeed moving within
the hinge and really should just come out. There are 2 things that would
cause difficulty:
1) you might still have the nut on - I know - obvious, but I need to say it
<grin>
2) you are not lifting perfectly straight upwards. If you lift on the door
at its end you are binding the hinge, creating difficulty. On my TJ I grab
the mirror stalk right at the door (standing outside) and the interior door
handle and lift straight up, moving the door slowly if I need to (I usually
just lift it right up).

I have since just left the nuts off forever, as my doors go on and off all
the time depending upon rain.
Hope this helps,
Tomes

"Dale Atkin" <com> wrote in message
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Yep the nuts are off, haven't put them back on since I took them off the
first time .

The pin on the top rotates with the bottom part of the hinge, the pin on the
bottom rotates with the top part of the hinge. Neither pin comes out of the
hinge.
On the other door, both pins come out with the top part of the hinge, and
neither pin will move.

My feeling is that the top pin is seized to the bottom part of the hinge,
which means that the door can open and close, but as soon as you try lifting
the door, you're just ramming the bottom part of the hinge in to the top
part (although there is no measurable motion anyways), which now that I
think about it isn't really putting any pressure on where it is bound up
anyways.

Dale

"Tomes" <net> wrote in message
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Yeah, man. Get a socket. You can get so much more leverage on those
suckers. Spray some stuff on them too... CDR... or whatever it's
called. WD40. Those multi size things are crap for frozen bolts.

--Brian


On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 03:01:25 GMT, "Dale Atkin" <com>
wrote:
 

> Yeah, man. Get a socket. You can get so much more leverage on those 

Man I wish I'd known I could get a socket for it. I wouldn't have wasted my
time (and damaged the bolt in the process). Got the socket the other day,
and managed to get 2 out of 3 of the bolts out. Looks like I'm going to have
to drill the third one (glad all this mess I'm making is covered up by the
mirror...),

Dale