my doors are gone w/ new mirror pics!!!!!

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:06 am

The young lady DOES add to the look

How about 1/2 doors for the back? Take out the far back windows and remove the tailgate window?

Terry

_UnLiMiTeD_ · **Posted:** Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:16 pm

lets add a face to those nice legs! :shock:

Freshmud · **Posted:** Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:33 pm

by populart demand my "jeep" is back

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:31 pm

Who ever said it was right...........Put a ring on her!

Terry

Freshmud · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:18 am

probably not going to do doors any more i cant find a tube bender for anything but 1.5 in tube and i think its to small but if any one can compare to jeep or just sizes in general plz do i might be inspired to finish as of not maybe going with steel doors of a straight less bent kind and that boxxy looking crapy steel :cry:

which im not happy about at all i even broke down and called pro shops to help. plz plz plz give ideas and support!!!!

Freshmud · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:33 am

oh and when i have the money for the ring she doesnt know it yet but the question isnt to far away, im taking her to florida soon and goona do it there on the beach, definitly nervous but i love the girl more then i love my jeep (sorry guys) its close though. come the 6th to 14th we will be in destin and if any kjs in the area wanna take us for a ride, my kj wont be there due to im dropping it off for these doors, let me know. also wish me luck

DarbyWalters · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:00 am

Call any shop that builds roll cages ... they will have a pipe benders with different sized "chucks". Actually a DOM 1.5" with .95-.120 wall thickness would probably be fine. Just get an experienced builder that knows the DOM schedule chart.

Google DOM and Schedule to find out more info.

Just found a site that will give some good info:

http://www.izook.com/spy/rock4x/rock4x.htm

SCCA racing requires 2" x .120 wall (DOM) for cages on for instance Mazda RX7's (protects for high speed crashes)

SCORE requires 1.75" x .120 wall (DOM) for vehicles like Chevy K5's ect.
........................2.00" x .120 wall (DOM) for 8000# vehicles

I think you doors could be made with 1.5-1.75 X .120 DOM

dog_party · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:54 am

I think 1.5" will work fine. You certainly don't need anything bigger than 2". I like watching the progress of this project. Thanks for keeping us up-to-date.

Congrats on the impending Big Question!

snow blower · **Joined:** Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:24 am **Posts:** 69

or you can just shoot over to an exhaust shop. I don't think they would need to be mandrel bends. Or you can go shady tree mechanic style- torch, bench vice, and a long torque tube

DarbyWalters · **Posted:** Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:38 am

If you are going to spend the time and money to design them...do not go to an exhaust shop unless they have a madrel bender. Why ruin (remove strength) from material with crimp bending?

Now if you want an exhaust shop to build you a cheap "mock" set of doors (one front and one rear) for experimental purposes...sure.

My self, I would design them to actually "bulge out". If they protrude a bit past the original door skins, they might act as good body protection from trees ect.

SoDakJeep · **Posted:** Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:32 am

hey go on ebay....you can get a bunch of madral bends in all sizes and angles. Look up intercooler pipeing or madral bends.

steveyos · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:07 am

Freshmud wrote:

probably not going to do doors any more i cant find a tube bender for anything but 1.5 in tube and i think its to small but if any one can compare to jeep or just sizes in general plz do i might be inspired to finish as of not maybe going with steel doors of a straight less bent kind and that boxxy looking crapy steel :cry:

which im not happy about at all i even broke down and called pro shops to help. plz plz plz give ideas and support!!!!

Sounds like you need a Wrangler, wach your toes when cutting the roof off of a unibody liberty

EOD-KJ · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:07 am

Freshmud wrote:

oh and when i have the money for the ring she doesnt know it yet but the question isnt to far away, im taking her to florida soon and goona do it there on the beach, definitly nervous but i love the girl more then i love my jeep (sorry guys) its close though. come the 6th to 14th we will be in destin and if any kjs in the area wanna take us for a ride, my kj wont be there due to im dropping it off for these doors, let me know. also wish me luck

destin is nice...i lived there for a year

just watch out for the hurricanes

BeepBeepJeepJeep · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:14 pm

If I were you i'd stop challenging the engineers over at jeep

You already wasted enough time on the doors, why waste more on something that cannot be reversed?

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:15 pm

BeepBeepJeepJeep wrote:

If I were you i'd stop challenging the engineers over at jeep

You already wasted enough time on the doors, why waste more on something that cannot be reversed?

Like I always told my kids: "Can't never could, you gotta try".

Terry

Freshmud · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:55 pm

BeepBeepJeepJeep wrote:

If I were you i'd stop challenging the engineers over at jeep

You already wasted enough time on the doors, why waste more on something that cannot be reversed?

if your not happy with something fix it so i wanna cut out the back windows to the seats and down to the end of the back window, kind of like a hummer, roll cage inside with tube doors, no more carpet, thanks for the idea of rhino coating, arb bumber all around, sfa with big lift and some 35s, swappin out the fender flares with some rene's o and idk more ideas any one?

DarbyWalters · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:03 am

Well, we should all just paint our KJs Vanilla White...why bother with color choices? :lol:

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:35 am

I say cut it up, tube it out and then some! Somebody has to be first and if they don't hurry up allyrand will beat "Somebody" to it!

ARBSeth · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:09 am

Someone once told me you couldn't do this in a KJ, too...

Build em man! I miss the no door TJ thing. And I agree with the bulge them out a little idea...
It's not a TJ, the KJ has rounded doors. If you can round them out a little, you might be a little happier with the lines. Darby is right, spend a little more and have them mandrel bent... it'll look better, too. If you can't do it, a good machine shop can.

Once you get over the fact that it's just a car, cutting it up isn't that big a deal...Good luck and happy cutting!

DarbyWalters · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:02 pm

OK...THAT is DEFINITELY the NEW KJ CALENDAR SHOT :shock:

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