Removing the Doors - No bolt?
JK Enthusiast
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From: VERMONT
[QUOTE=Goeagles88;2154286]Here are 2 little jewels of advice I'll throw in.. My wife bitched the whole time...
Im a gonna add the 3rd Jewel -
- Tell the wife it is a Jeep thing, get over it...She is lucky you don't put your jeep's doors in the house and her in the garage,,,,GIT-R-DONE,,,,,..ha,ha,ha..lol 
I am a single dude, I can get away with it,,,,,lol
SLIM
Im a gonna add the 3rd Jewel -
- Tell the wife it is a Jeep thing, get over it...She is lucky you don't put your jeep's doors in the house and her in the garage,,,,GIT-R-DONE,,,,,..ha,ha,ha..lol I am a single dude, I can get away with it,,,,,lol
SLIM
JK Freak
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From: Westchester, NY
Originally Posted by southernlad
Noobie question.....
...I am trying to remove my doors for the first time and I have read on here that I need a T50 torx to do so, but when I look under the hinge, I don't see a T50 bolt to remove! I suspected that maybe it was already removed, so I tried just lifting it with a bit of force, but no luck. Can someone look at the pic I've attached and tell me if that's what it looks like after the bolt has been removed?
Argh!
...I am trying to remove my doors for the first time and I have read on here that I need a T50 torx to do so, but when I look under the hinge, I don't see a T50 bolt to remove! I suspected that maybe it was already removed, so I tried just lifting it with a bit of force, but no luck. Can someone look at the pic I've attached and tell me if that's what it looks like after the bolt has been removed?
Argh!
JK Newbie
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From: Waxahachie, texas
Everything mentioned above is good advice. Also wanted to say make sure you remove the doors at a 90 degree angle, that way when they finally come out of the posts you have less chance to rub paint against paint. Also putting them on at the same 90 degree angle makes it easier as well.
JK Super Freak
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From: Sussex County, NJ
[QUOTE=SLIM_SNOOPY;2154575]
And now we know why you are single
Just kidding...my wife cant bitch about the doors taking up space in the garage because she is not allowed in the garage
Here are 2 little jewels of advice I'll throw in.. My wife bitched the whole time...
Im a gonna add the 3rd Jewel -- Tell the wife it is a Jeep thing, get over it...She is lucky you don't put your jeep's doors in the house and her in the garage,,,,GIT-R-DONE,,,,,..ha,ha,ha..lol
I am a single dude, I can get away with it,,,,,lol
SLIM
Im a gonna add the 3rd Jewel -
- Tell the wife it is a Jeep thing, get over it...She is lucky you don't put your jeep's doors in the house and her in the garage,,,,GIT-R-DONE,,,,,..ha,ha,ha..lol I am a single dude, I can get away with it,,,,,lol
SLIMJust kidding...my wife cant bitch about the doors taking up space in the garage because she is not allowed in the garage
JK Freak
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From: Westchester, NY
Originally Posted by woo1517
Be sure to lift straight up. easiest way for me is to have the window down, and from the outside reach in and pull up on the door handle while my other and is on the bottom or the door.
JK Enthusiast
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From: Pawcatuck, CT
I got my Jeep in June '08, took the doors off July '08. The nuts never went back on. Makes for no brainer door removal. Not much concern with doors staying on in a car wreck. Most cases they get smashed in preventing them from opening anyway.
JK Junkie
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From: Virginia Woods
they are called door hinge nuts and the MSRP at your dealer is $1.60 each. I was in my 20's once and was gonna live forever, but now I'm a bit further along I would advise you NOT to run your rig without these nuts in place. The Wrangler has a 2 component design that could lead to bad news for your heirs....(1)The hinge design allows removal of these nuts. (2)The exterior door handles have a PUSH IN button design. Get into a sideswipe accident scenario and get the door handle button area mashed in and the door pushed or pulled up and back and this door will go byebye as you watch it. Not a good situation in a wreck.
JK Newbie
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From: Some FORT named SMITH in AR
thats $35 for all of them, its rediculous!!! so thats when i decided to not put them back on either just like the tj i had. if i send you $15 can you get me some and ship them too me? lol also on the removal having half doors helps too just take the tops off and they are much lighter and easier to hold on too..
$2.97 on ebay.
JK Enthusiast
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From: Pawcatuck, CT
On the same note, it's a whole hell of a lot safer to be driving with doors on and not have the nuts installed then to be driving without doors at all. I'm just not convinced that having those nuts in place would make a significant difference in a two car collision. Maybe in a collision/roll over situation would those kind of forces happen 