cut off 40 doors

[plowy]

needin sum pics of guys 40 series doors mods due to puttin me truck on its side n makin a mess of the truck and now changin it to a soft top also chasin a roll bar too

[shorty_f0rty]

heres my half assed attempt at making halfdoors from full doors. this is just a progress pic. this weekend i evened up the cuts and cleaned it all up. just gotta cap it and put an arm rest on there.

[Fieldsy]

I got fiberglass ones from FRP cost 300 each and were about 1 inch too short

[Shorty40]

checker plate

[DIRTY ROCK STAR]

fieldsy, how could the glass ones be too short???

too short for what??

i have fibreglass ones they rock the nation IMO.

[shorty_f0rty]

fieldsy, how could the glass ones be too short???

too short for what??

i have fibreglass ones they rock the nation IMO.

Can you take a close up of your doors please??

[Fieldsy]

The cruizer is out getting work done. (has been since 17 nov last year ) the problem was that the doors were not long enough. nomater how i mounted them they just wouldnt line up with the catch. redriled the hinge mounts as far as i could but still didnt work. the solition in the end was to use the catch(the one on the piller) off a 75s with spacers on it. but they don't come close to sealing.

[bj42turbo]

Here is mine that I cut down, welded top steel plates on

[pcman]

1/2 doors are for pussies

[plowy]

thats phat

could of been a standard door and you would have one me

im a sucker for flames

[40 lover]

do a search dude if you already havent

ive seen a heap of crapola on here about 1/2 doors

[UZJ40]

I have f/glass doors from eureka, fit perfect.

[Fieldsy]

I have f/glass doors from eureka, fit perfect.

Another big advantage those have over mine is that the hole on the inside of those ones is a LOT smaller. that would make putting a door trim a lot easyer. also I checked the price today frp want $388 ea for these I think i paid about 320 3 years ago and honstley expected more

This is what I wrote in my web site about these doors

the doors look like they are about 25mm to short for a start they had no hope of closing no mater what I did to the hinges. After about 2 day's worth of stuffing around I put 2 door catches on from a 75 series cruiser on, as they are longer and at least let the door close. Then I went and brought new door handles and latch mech's for her. The linkages were a total nightmare I had to bend the hell out of them just to get them in the door. That took 2 days as well. (You should have seen me! I almost lost it). But wait there is more. Then I had to make up some new trims for the doors from hell. All went well until I went to put them on the doors. There is not enough surface on the door's to put the trim clips on! The left door has only got 3 clips holding the bloody thing on. So don't ask me what I think about FRP's half doors.

[plowy]

thanks guys just finished 1 door half hour ago same shape as shorty-f0rty
next tommorow

[china]

man cant wait to see it!! tops stuff.

[plowy]

yeah she'a a bit of ruff as guts racing

[eddie]

cut mine into halfdoors
will try and get a pic to post of them

[DIRTY ROCK STAR]

shorty_f0rty
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:29 pm

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DIRTY ROCK STAR wrote:
fieldsy, how could the glass ones be too short???

too short for what??

i have fibreglass ones they rock the nation IMO.


Can you take a close up of your doors please??

shall do soon, just saw reply.

[plowy]

2 doors cut n ready to go now down to the roll bar

[eddie]

mine

[plowy]

yeah thats the style i went , thanks guys for the info