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Old Jul 27, 2018 | 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by unidentifiedbomb
Thank you! I haven't driven with no doors yet but I love the look and feel of the half doors. Soon going to have the jeep at a Oldblue#2's place where all the real work is taken, updates coming soon.
I've driven with no doors for years and love it for the summer time and it makes working on the jeep easier with the door out of the way.
I recently bough a TJ with Half Doors and I love it more for when your just cruising vs no doors.
I've almost lost stuff more than once when I don't think and put stuff in the passenger floor board with the doors off.

They both have there advantages.
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Old Jul 27, 2018 | 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Desertfox1023
I've driven with no doors for years and love it for the summer time and it makes working on the jeep easier with the door out of the way.
I recently bough a TJ with Half Doors and I love it more for when your just cruising vs no doors.
I've almost lost stuff more than once when I don't think and put stuff in the passenger floor board with the doors off.

They both have there advantages.
Agreed.
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Old Jul 28, 2018 | 08:22 PM
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Waxed! Even got the roof.
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Old Jul 28, 2018 | 08:59 PM
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A touch late to the doors conversation, but half doors would be awesome. Sometimes with no doors it just feels too open. I'd like to have something to rest my leg against, but have no top half. Maybe tube doors would satisfy that? Anyway, I'd at least try riding no doors.
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Old Jul 28, 2018 | 09:04 PM
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Waxed! Even got the roof.
Well, how's the mud gonna stick now?!?!?
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Old Jul 29, 2018 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by SatiricalHen
A touch late to the doors conversation, but half doors would be awesome. Sometimes with no doors it just feels too open. I'd like to have something to rest my leg against, but have no top half. Maybe tube doors would satisfy that? Anyway, I'd at least try riding no doors.
Have you seen my posts about the half door project? Perfect arm rest, 6x9 speakers, much improved visibility over full doors.
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Old Jul 29, 2018 | 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Basslicks
Well, how's the mud gonna stick now?!?!?
Actually it rained on the way up to Oldblue's house and no flares gave a nice overspray of road wash.
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Old Jul 29, 2018 | 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by unidentifiedbomb
Have you seen my posts about the half door project? Perfect arm rest, 6x9 speakers, much improved visibility over full doors.
I've seen them, but I could never pull off that kind of clean fabrication.
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Old Jul 29, 2018 | 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by SatiricalHen
I've seen them, but I could never pull off that kind of clean fabrication.
Passenger side (first side I did) for sure is worse looking than the driver side. I never used bondo until the doors and it came out ok. Can still see score marks where I bent the door but over all I'm not expecting to do a shop quality job and they look great to me. Best thing to do is just get out and try it.
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Old Jul 31, 2018 | 02:25 AM
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Originally Posted by unidentifiedbomb
Actually it rained on the way up to Oldblue's house and no flares gave a nice overspray of road wash.
Haha... yeah that's kind of always a gimme with no flares.
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Old Aug 3, 2018 | 08:30 AM
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Don't mind my phone's potato quality, but move on the rear started. First with HD Offroad's rear stiffeners. Removed the gas tank after, having some possible thoughts of cutting the floor a little and raising it higher but not dropping the tank inside, just allowing it the straps to raise it slightly in and cut the skid plate to sit higher. Just an idea I have to look more into. Rear shock towers next.

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Old Aug 9, 2018 | 04:56 PM
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Towers are in. Need to brace them. At ride height the length is 21"s. Shocks I had are toast and way too short. 17.38" collapsed and 24.5" extended. Going to need to find a place I can flex everything and measure. Going to make a brace to connect them. Slightly worried about running a 12.50" tire with no spacers, but no worries currently with the 10.50s. Going to cut and fold the inner well into the towers and hopefully seal it all up.

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Old Aug 10, 2018 | 09:33 AM
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Old Aug 10, 2018 | 09:38 AM
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I don't know what happened to the attachments in the original post yesterday. Anyone have any recommendations for rear shocks? I'm being told I should run a softer shock being straight up now. Was recommended Bilstein 5125s, looking at 170/60 valving. I ran out of floor jack travel before the tire even started getting tucked to do any measurements.
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Old Aug 10, 2018 | 10:04 AM
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go with bilstein shocks
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