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Just Got My Quick Hinges

These hinges look really good. I am restoring my 73 FJ and just finished painting the cab. Plan to install the hinges line up the doors, remove them and commence to painting the rest of the rig.
 
not cursing you...old hinge removal produced a few...and I forgot about needing to line up the new ones... Had to pick your and pit down the door a lot...finally just loosened the base hinges and the moved into the right spot....I'm not a smart man...can't wait to do the driver side!
 
Could you make a mount that attaches to the wall in the garage? You could hang the doors on them when you take then off. What to do to protect my doors when they are off is always a challenge.
 
Door hangers

I would think vertical would be best. You could mount them close to a corner and not take up much space. The doors sticking straight out from the wall would be fairly heavy so mounting them to studs would be best.
 
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Outdoor707 said:
I would think vertical would be best. You could mount them close to a corner and not take up much space. The doors sticking straight out from the wall would be fairly heavy so mounting them to studs would be best.
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So are you suggesting hanging the doors on the garage wall as you would on your truck, like with the door upright? I would think they would go flat against the wall.

Since not all stud walls are created equal, how long should a horizontal attachment piece be to be able to locate a couple of studs? 20", 24" and the user cuts any unneeded excess?
 
That would be Awesome!!!

The wall hanging would be sweet! That's a lot better than me putting my doors on the cement scratching the bottom edge!
 
Door hangers

I had imagined straight out from the wall but flat against the wall would work. We have a bike hanger in the garage that hooks to a single stud. You could hang one door above the other.
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Wall hangers, great idea!!

Standard stud spacing is 16" or 24". Anything other is non-standard.

Maybe a wall mount wide enough to incorporate a door striker that would use the stock door latch to keep the door parallel to the wall. No chance of inadvertently being swung out away from the wall.

The way I have this pictured in my mind the wall portion of the mount could be drilled for both 16" and 24" stud spacing. This could also be custom drilled by the end user for custom stud spacing.

Don
 
I'm not really following this thread so I hope I'm understanding the issue...

I'd think a vertical mount that attaches to a single stud (per door) versus a horizontal set-up that must span the often inconsistent 16" (or 24") on center dimension would offer the best of both worlds. The doors could extend outward from the wall or swing over to lay flat against the wall - just like closing the doors when they're on the vehicle.
 
I've had a couple different ideas of possible arrangments. The first was to have both doors flat against the wall with the forward/hinge sides facing each other. This would require a lot of wall space, but would allow the doors to balance out the load on the wall hangars. I've also thought about a pair of brackets that would allow the doors to be "stacked" against the wall. I could do it for just front doors or build them to facilitate ambulance door hanging on the same brackets in the same stack. So the stacked door idea would be two to four doors all together. For the latch end I haven't determined the best way of securing them. I think a simple bracket with bungee or nylon/velcro straps might work. It has to be simple.

Would the stacked arrangement be best with the insides or outsides of the doors facing each other? If the outsides faced each other, the exterior paint would be protected from any garage storage incidents. It would allow for a shorter bracket protrudint from the wall too.

My goal with any of this stuff is to keep it as inexpensive and user friendly as possible.
 
I think 4 doors on one bracket will be a lot of weight. Having the doors stick straight out from the wall would take up the least amount of wall space but you would have to have a different type of space. I still kind of like that idea. FJ40s are short. Having the doors stick straight out close to the corner on the back wall would work well for my space. On the other hand anything that got the doors of the floor and protected would be OK with me. I am excited to see it when you get one together.
 
Door hangars

So I made a bit of progress with the first door hangar prototype. I'm showing one "tree" of the system. There will be two trees which will each attach to ~2ft lengths of unistrut. this will allow for mounting to 16-24" stud walls and infinite lateral adjustment for the best settup in any place for door storage.

I didn't have doors with me at the shop so I had to guess on dimensions. I'm thinking the loops nearest the wall should be a bit further out from the tree for hanging the doors into a corner.

I don't have pretty doors...
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