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Old 10-25-2010, 09:55 AM
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so my dad and i made allot for my brothers wrangler. the tube doors and the flat fenders. i was really thinkin does anyone think the doors would be great on our cherokees? one thing that may bother me is the wiring for my electric windows and my locks and mirrors. any way to fix this?

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Those tube doors look great! As far as the wiring for the doors and windows, i believe there's a harness from the door jamb, into the door that you can just unplug.
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Those tube doors look great! As far as the wiring for the doors and windows, i believe there's a harness from the door jamb, into the door that you can just unplug.

reallyy! well hell ill just have to jump rite into this! lol. ill post pic of progression wen project begins. and poss make a few more to sell. thanks ill look into it
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i make them forsale

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i make them forsale

they look good but i want actual bent pipe for fit perfect in my jams like the others i made! i was just really concernd of the eltrical part
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the electrics are on quick disconnects from the factory in the kick panels. Here are some for purchase(PM me for more details):


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those were my first ones but i do now can bend tube and pipe to make it flow better and i use slam latches
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so my dad and i made allot for my brothers wrangler. the tube doors and the flat fenders. i was really thinkin does anyone think the doors would be great on our cherokees? one thing that may bother me is the wiring for my electric windows and my locks and mirrors. any way to fix this?

i have the warrior products tube doors on my cherokee and i like the way yours look more. definitely built them. and as far as connecting your stereo, power windows, etc. i would use a trailer electrical connector, you know what you use to hook up the trailer lights to the truck. when i took my doors off there wasn't any kind of harness i could unplug unless i missed it.
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I have a set of tube doors waiting to be welded up and my thought was to use my parts jeep to make a second set of control panels on the underside of the dash somewhere. I found out that when you have a 4 door if you take the front doors off you cant roll up the back windows. Yeah that sucked.

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i have the warrior products tube doors on my cherokee and i like the way yours look more. definitely built them. and as far as connecting your stereo, power windows, etc. i would use a trailer electrical connector, you know what you use to hook up the trailer lights to the truck. when i took my doors off there wasn't any kind of harness i could unplug unless i missed it.
first you almost copy my name and then you copy everything i do!!



Just kidding man. It is actually a great idea to use trailer connectors.
You can get them for $5 each (with male and female ends) from walmart.
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ehh i see! well i have a 1990 2 door. i think the tube doors will look better on 2 door rather than the 4 door no offense to anyone with 4 doors. but i deff need to take a weekend to consider my options wich it seems there will be lots if this post bring many ideass lol! and soo far its going great i like the imput and its goin to help my brainstorming hhaha
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Just kidding man. It is actually a great idea to use trailer connectors.
You can get them for $5 each (with male and female ends) from walmart.
lmao great minds think alike then and i always thought our names where a little bit to similar but i think 96' was the biggest production year for xjs it was like 280,000 lol
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must be nice to be ablet to use a trailer connector. i have to find something that will connect 20 wires together. since i have power everything and rear doors too. dope.
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must be nice to be ablet to use a trailer connector. i have to find something that will connect 20 wires together. since i have power everything and rear doors too. dope.
i feel you on that one, i just unplug all mine from the kick panels, its easy and it only takes me about 10 mins to have both front doors off, the problem is getting them baack on, the mothers are heavy and its a pain to hold them up and try to put the pins in at the same time
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Originally Posted by cherokeeaddiction23
i feel you on that one, i just unplug all mine from the kick panels, its easy and it only takes me about 10 mins to have both front doors off, the problem is getting them baack on, the mothers are heavy and its a pain to hold them up and try to put the pins in at the same time
And to line up to jams too! I use shims to help do that!


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