You can drive the roll pins out or drill them if you really like to torture yourself. Then cut off the bottom ears and replace the pin with a bolt or solid stock. The doors will lift right off. OR you could do something like what I have started, put TJ hinges on. That is A LOT of work though just to have removeable doors.

 

Hmm.... TJ hinges

We just got done completly swapping out a 95 to this 87 (the 95 was rolled) and 4-6 of us spent about 50 hours each on it, so we are ok for work. =)

but the TJ hinges are interesting to me. Did you already do that, or are you just looking into it?

thanks for the advice

 

Yeah man I think that you should go with the TJ style hinges I think that even though it might be a lot of work that it would probably work out best in the end, and it might actually look pretty cool if done right

 

I did the same thing as Athlon, removed the lower part of both hinges and my buddy made it so that you just have to take apart the wires (PW and DL) from a plug and then removing the pin and lifting them off. Looks stock and works out pretty well.

 

poundin out the roll pins are a pain, then just replace them with a small hitch pin. never thought about cutting the lower ear off though that would make lining the holes up a lot easier too.

 

yeah, just cut the lower ear off, i did it a few weeks ago. I left the roll pins in though. Its kind of a pain to put the doors back on though.

 

Cutting off the lower ears is a pretty easy approach. We did it to an XJ of a friend of mine, and it worked out really well. You should see the looks he gets driving around in a mud covered XJ with clean doors. It's pretty much trail only (other than the highway to and from), so he didn't even bother putting a pin on the bottom. Its really quick and easy to remove the doors, just pull a couple of plugs, and lift the doors up and out. As said before - It makes it really easy to line everything up when reinstalling.

JH

 

Re: Hmm.... TJ hinges

but the TJ hinges are interesting to me. Did you already do that, or are you just looking into it?

thanks for the advice

I started on it but have been off work since Jan. from a botched surgery. All I have done right now is some of the support structure inside the door. Since the door is curved though it would probably bind the hinges and make them "unremoveable". The plan is to build them out enough top and bottom to make them both perfectly vertical, recess a little here, bump out a little there... Basically if you think of it in your head, you build the structure so that it's from the front of the door where the old mounts are directly to the hinges, the door itself is just a skin.

On the fender side I'm scrapping the stock fenders anyways. Building tube fenders from scratch so getting the structural strength I need won't be a problem there.

 

Cutting off the lower ears is a pretty easy approach. We did it to an XJ of a friend of mine, and it worked out really well. You should see the looks he gets driving around in a mud covered XJ with clean doors. It's pretty much trail only (other than the highway to and from), so he didn't even bother putting a pin on the bottom. Its really quick and easy to remove the doors, just pull a couple of plugs, and lift the doors up and out. As said before - It makes it really easy to line everything up when reinstalling.

JH

I've done this too, NO WAY - would I fawk with fabbing up TJ hinges K.I.S.S. is always best

 

I've done this too, NO WAY - would I fawk with fabbing up TJ hinges K.I.S.S. is always best

wuss:flipoff2: Usually I do keep it simple but I'm building it up as a rolling tribute to veterans of all foreign war. Something I've wanted to do for years and years. Now that I'm doing it, not going to even think about making it easy.