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How The Hell Do You Take The Doors Off A Zook?
How The Hell Do You Take The Doors Off A Zook?
How The Hell Do You Take The Doors Off A Zook?
I Have tryed everything, Air Rachets, Socket with Phill Head on it.
The hinges just wont come off
Please help
Cheers
I Have tryed everything, Air Rachets, Socket with Phill Head on it.
The hinges just wont come off
Please help
Cheers
doors off zook
use ur impact driver but tighten the screws to break the factory locktight first then undo them.
Get an air hacksaw and cut the top arm off each hinge, so that when you open the door, they will just lift off, if the straps are undone. That is what I did to mine.
Took 2 seconds to remove doors when I wanted to. And 2 seconds to get them back on.
Took 2 seconds to remove doors when I wanted to. And 2 seconds to get them back on.
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door screws
Forget about an impact driver.. You will only smash bits and dent panels.
Get a hammer and a good cold chisel. Works for me. NO damage to paint on doors, body or hinges, however screws will need replacing. Use Nevaseeze on new screws. Stainless buttonhead capscrews are the go.
Get a hammer and a good cold chisel. Works for me. NO damage to paint on doors, body or hinges, however screws will need replacing. Use Nevaseeze on new screws. Stainless buttonhead capscrews are the go.
Last edited by want33s on Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I have also found the impact driver to push the panel in rather then undo the screw - especially on the top screw of the top hinge.
I have used a cold chisel for ages, neve had one beat me.
The quickest way is an air chisel with a screwdriver attachment. Bluepoint (Snap-on) do these and while the air chisel is shocking the screw you just turn the lever and viola! - any screw is undone!
PS I have had a car at home with cut hinges and they make me nervous. They are quick (but so is undoing 8 screws) but aren't as secure.
Steve.
I have used a cold chisel for ages, neve had one beat me.
The quickest way is an air chisel with a screwdriver attachment. Bluepoint (Snap-on) do these and while the air chisel is shocking the screw you just turn the lever and viola! - any screw is undone!
PS I have had a car at home with cut hinges and they make me nervous. They are quick (but so is undoing 8 screws) but aren't as secure.
Steve.
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
Yeh, the ultimate challenge in rebuilding a Zook!
I went through this after getting a good pair of doors to replace my rusted out ones a few months ago. After shattering several impact driver bits, and having seen the damage a cold chisel can do if it slips at the critical moment, I dug out my old set of Eazi-Outs.
Drilled a small hole in dead centre of the Philips head slots (can't remember now what size drill bit I used, or what size Eazi-Out!) and they all came undone with relative ease. If you are careful, the screws can be re-used, though I had to replace a few that I had savaged with the impact driver.
Incidentally, I do like Want33's idea of the stainless buttonhead capscrews to replace the original crappy screws!
Cheers - Longbaser.
I went through this after getting a good pair of doors to replace my rusted out ones a few months ago. After shattering several impact driver bits, and having seen the damage a cold chisel can do if it slips at the critical moment, I dug out my old set of Eazi-Outs.
Drilled a small hole in dead centre of the Philips head slots (can't remember now what size drill bit I used, or what size Eazi-Out!) and they all came undone with relative ease. If you are careful, the screws can be re-used, though I had to replace a few that I had savaged with the impact driver.
Incidentally, I do like Want33's idea of the stainless buttonhead capscrews to replace the original crappy screws!
Cheers - Longbaser.
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Why so Steve, the doors are about as tough as a coke can anyway.Gwagensteve wrote:
I have had a car at home with cut hinges and they make me nervous.
Steve.
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Hmmm, after buying hundreds of stainless caps for flare mounting etc, I am not really a fan. Button heads are shallower than normal cap heads and I have had heaps of trouble with them galling and the hex burring.
They might be ok for door mounting because they don't require much torque and are unlikely to get much imapct damage, but once the stock screws have had their locktite broken they seem the best option to me.
Steve.
They might be ok for door mounting because they don't require much torque and are unlikely to get much imapct damage, but once the stock screws have had their locktite broken they seem the best option to me.
Steve.
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
Re: door screws
Those doors look familia!want33s wrote:Forget about an impact driver.. You will only smash bits and dent panels.
Get a hammer and a good cold chisel. Works for me. NO damage to paint on doors, body or hinges, however screws will need replacing. Use Nevaseeze on new screws. Stainless buttonhead capscrews are the go.
They came up very well!
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Re: door screws
Yep, I like them. Thanks Nath. Bit cold to use them at the moment, will have to wait another few months.suzuki boy wrote:
Those doors look familia!
They came up very well!
If all else fails then knock the paint off the head of the screw and weld a nut to the top of the screw. Then use a wrench that fits the nut. I had to do that to get the screws off a couple of my hinges.
Here is a permanent fix:
http://www.izook.com/tech/samurai/doors ... ngecut.htm
Here is a permanent fix:
http://www.izook.com/tech/samurai/doors ... ngecut.htm
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Dunno - just makes me nervous. halves the strength of the hinge, and I don't like that the door is not properly retained.love_mud wrote:Why so Steve, the doors are about as tough as a coke can anyway.Gwagensteve wrote:
I have had a car at home with cut hinges and they make me nervous.
Steve.
If their was a quick release pin or some form of positive retention so the door couldn't lift off without another step being taken like a pin pulled or something I would be happy.
I know it doesn't make much sense when I am happy to drive with no doors, but with no doors you know exactly where you stand.
Steve.
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
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