Taking Doors off TJ

obxbronco

obxbronco

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How in the crap do you take full steel doors off of 01 tj? They nuts on the hinges look rounded almost.
 
PB Blaster, WD-40, try different size wrenches, vise grips, or pipe wrenches. Put some of those kitchen grip things on the nuts if you are worried about scratching anything. most people just take the nuts off and leave them off though.
 
ah, thanks
 
i can't even get a bite on the so called nuts.
 
:lol:
 
oh crap!
 
gotta take it to the dealer!
 
i think you should probably just sell the jeep and get a honda. If you can't figure out how to get the doors off then there is no way your mind can wrap around any other situations that may arise from jeep ownership
 
looks like whoever had it before me beat on the door pins, and rounded the nuts.
 
Man that sucks.. only thing i can think of if you can't get a set of vise grips on the nuts the just cut the shaft just above the nut, its not serving any purpose if your not going to put nuts back on the doors, if you cant get to the shaft without hurting the paint to your rig, unbolt the hindges off the body, then remove the door and hinge, set it on your work bench and have at it.... one way we use to get stuck nuts off shafts is to get your cutting wheel, cut a slit in the nut all the way to the stud saft, then take a chisel and drive it into the slit, the nut will expand and come right off, I had to do that to my girlfriend's dad's YJ..
 
I personally always prefer to try and save the shaft. You may lose a nut in doing so, but you can get by without them. If you don't have a good shaft, well, it just won't ever sit right....
:D
Are we still talking about doors here?
 
Ricky,
Did you get your nuts off yet?







:lol:
 
nah, not yet. gonna try cutting the nuts off. this tread went soo south.
 
One thing you have to be careful of is turning the wrench the wrong way. Since the nut is on the bottom some people have been known to turn it the wrong way.
 
well cutting didn't work, looks like someone put too small of a nut on it, screwed on as far as they could, and rounded it off.
 
how did cutting not work?

Did you cut to the shaft?

once you cut to the shaft, pry the nut open, it should fall off
 
i tried cutting the nut, but i can't cut but just a little bit of it. Where are you talking about cutting the shaft at?
 
Maybe its a security feature that requires a special tool? I dunno, every wrangler I had never came with door nuts.... just truck nuts ha ha
 
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