Ex-military door top

Taffy

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• Jun 19, 2014

• #1

The other day my passenger side door which is military and series style. Split to top and bottom. The bolts holding it snapped. Rusted. So I took it off and the bolt was rusted solid to the top thread. So took windows out and got a new nut and welded it to the bolt and removed it. New rubber strip on and back on. Hour work.

 

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nobber

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• Jun 19, 2014

• #2

Taffy said:

The other day my passenger side door which is military and series style. Split to top and bottom. The bolts holding it snapped. Rusted. So I took it off and the bolt was rusted solid to the top thread. So took windows out and got a new nut and welded it to the bolt and removed it. New rubber strip on and back on. Hour work.

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Grease them up before refitting them.
No more rust issues.

 

Huddy84

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• Jun 19, 2014

• #3

Need to do mine at some point, re-paint and waxoil insides. Bit rusty but not too bad, may look into new window runners for drivers side to reduce rattles.

 

flat

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• Jun 19, 2014

• #4

i dismantled both mine to sort the messed up runners. now one of them doesnt lock on the tab thing on the door!

I have cracked one of my door tops and as i cant weld aluminium (yet) i cant fix it, so riveted it for the mo

 

Taffy

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• Jun 19, 2014

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Nobber. I didn't use original bolt or anything. I made two up from m10 or m8 thread etc with double nuts locked off and washer. Yes I removed the locker for window. And same thing so I added a rubber glued to the end of the thing It hold window now. Popp riveted all back with sealant too. But after adding rubber between top and bottom I have now slight gap between frames and pillars lol !!