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Old 01-08-2011, 02:23 AM
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what does it take to make cherokee doors removable?
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This has been covered countless times. http://www.google.com/search?q=chero...ient=firefox-a
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To take the doors off all you have to do is unbolt the star lookin bolts when u open ur door I think there is 6 per door but not quite sure
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if you take the doors off make sure you have frame stiffeners or kiss your unibody structure goodbye
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Ya that's wat are u doing. Are u wanting to make tube doors or exactly y u taking them off need more info.
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if you take the doors off make sure you have frame stiffeners or kiss your unibody structure goodbye
Gotta call BS , Been runnin doorless and wheelin for years with no problems!!!!
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Originally Posted by Irongrave
if you take the doors off make sure you have frame stiffeners or kiss your unibody structure goodbye
BS.
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I've seen more then a few with tweekend unibodys from running door-less
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oo oo oo save some room for me on this bandwagon
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yea my unibody was perfectly fine before i sold it, its just another guy that has the whole mom syndrome..... oh hunny plz put your "helmet" on i don't want you to get "hurt" being rocker protection/frame stiffners and bumps and small dents Oh no
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All you have to do is cut the bottom portion of the brackets and the pins. It's not to hard i just did my driver side the other day. I'm planning on starting to make half doors very soon. So I did step one for them.
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I forgot to add this pic.
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Originally Posted by Irongrave
if you take the doors off make sure you have frame stiffeners or kiss your unibody structure goodbye
then what keeps the latches and hinges from binding up when they are on the xj?


take the doors off the hinges thats all it takes
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Originally Posted by Irongrave
I've seen more then a few with tweekend unibodys from running door-less
bs until you prove it. xj unibodies just tweak if they are left stock and wheeled hard with doors or no doors its just the nature of the beast
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quick search came up with this: http://www.mikestrawbridge.com/XJDoors.shtml no helpful pictures but good description

Im personally new to the cherokee so I cant comment on the structural integrity. I was running my fsbronco doorless and it was great... but thats a completely different setup.

Im going to try going doorless this spring since my truck is already messed up. Ill see what happens

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Theres a writeup on here just search it. I'd give you the address but I'm on my iPod app.


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