Hey guys...

Well, seems I'll be in Lebanon in 3 weeks and wanted to start planning any work on the Disco for a nice 22 day vacation with nothing my home made food, offroading, and mountain living...

Surprisingly, this time around, the to do list isn't long like previous times...QT motor mounts, retaining the rear springs, relocate the auto/engine coolers, redo the diff caps with sewer ones...and that's that...

We're planning a 4 day camp'n'rock session (4 trucks) and I wanted to get the base weight of the truck even lighter as I'll be carrying extra fuel/water/gear/food/stuff...so thought about tube doors instead of the heavy stock ones...saw some Toyota ones but I wanted something to follow my truck's lines...here are some options I thought about...lemme know what you think...I'd like to have them built based on the stock cab hinges in order to put the stock doors on when snow wheeling...

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http://www.dubai4x4.com/albums/albuo98/Picture2.sized.jpg

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http://www.dubai4x4.com/albums/albuo98/Picture3.sized.jpg

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http://www.dubai4x4.com/albums/albuo98/Picture4.sized.jpg

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http://www.dubai4x4.com/albums/albuo98/Picture5.sized.jpg

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http://www.dubai4x4.com/albums/albuo98/Picture6.sized.jpg

Cheers,
Nadim

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#2. The hinge part should be easy if you reuse some stuff of scrapped doors, but I am trying to picture the latch in my head:confused: Good luck, nice idea. I had some on my old Jeep, and they were perfect for wheeling in the summer.

Stretch the wheelbase first. It looks like a car rear-ended you going 150 mph. :flipoff2:

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I've been considering this for my RRC as well. My doors are beat to crap and it's amazing the windows still roll up and down, but there getting slower with all the big dents...

Stretch the wheelbase first. It looks like a car rear-ended you going 150 mph. :flipoff2:

Don't care how it looks, that's the right wheelbase for now (works well "off road" and "in pocket" :flipoff2:)

#2. The hinge part should be easy if you reuse some stuff of scrapped doors, but I am trying to picture the latch in my head:confused: Good luck, nice idea. I had some on my old Jeep, and they were perfect for wheeling in the summer.

Will be recycling some hinges from my rear doors :)...no issues there...I'm thinking more of the latch...but #2 or #3 are the most reasonble designs

Hmmmm, wonder how long it would take me to make a set of these for my truck... I'd better get the bender setup this weekend.

Hmmmm, wonder how long it would take me to make a set of these for my truck... I'd better get the bender setup this weekend.

What do you think you are going to make them out of (size of tubing...)?

Well, I've got a stick of 1.5" .120 wall sitting in the garage. Probably just use that.

Yep, was thinking 40mm x 3mm (almost same dimensions)...