I thought I would post a pic of our finished tube doors before we put the stock doors back on for winter. L.B.,
Tube doors finished
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Nice.
The web look is a nice touch.
The web look is a nice touch.
that looks awesome! love the webs on the door. do you get a lot of dust inside the cab?
Coolest tube doors I've seen on any rig! Nice work.
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Yeah, it gets dusty inside on dusty roads, but offroading with closed windows and air conditioning is not our style! 
Can we get a farther away pic, I want to see what no/half/tube doors looks like before I go to the trouble to remove.
93yotasr5
Come and take it
looks good man!!!
couple of us are heading up to kyburz tonight to camp out till tomorrow evening.
couple of us are heading up to kyburz tonight to camp out till tomorrow evening.
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Kyburz will be 19 deg tonight! Good luck!
93yotasr5
Come and take it
I'm well prepared!!! Can't wait. Gonna try and limit out on trout as well at china flats. Come on up if your around. Js93cruiser and mak924runr will be with me.
Can you show any more pictures of the mounting? I want to make a set, but i dont feel there is enough space to make it interchangable with the stock doors.
What do you mean? Flat stock, four holes, bolt it up.
I guess I want to be able to unplug wires, pull a pin, slide the door of the hinges, then slide the tube doors on, re-insert pin.
How did he make the hinge so that he can easily change between the stock and tube doors.
How did he make the hinge so that he can easily change between the stock and tube doors.
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We have the stock doors on now. It is too early to go out and take pics (maybe if I get home from work early enough). The wiring unclips by popping out the kick panels, each door is held on by 4 bolts. It took 2 of us about 1 hour to re-install the doors and rear hatch. If you welded on different hinges (that would allow a couple of pins to be pulled), I think getting the stock doors to fit correctly would be nearly impossible. We just finished our gas-shock supported light bar/roof rack yesterday but still need to paint (it has been 30 degrees up here in day time). When we mount it on the roof I will take more pics. L.B.
I just did the hinge mod where you cut a channel in the top of all the hinges. This allows you to leave the top bolt in the door and slide it into place. These doors are heavy as hell and nothing is going to make them easy to take on/off unless tou completely gutted them. However the hinge mod makes it significantly easier to install them since getting them lined up is the hardest part. As far as wiring goes, plugging/unplugging the doors is easy, it's just stuffing the harness back into the truck while holding the door in one hand that's a PIA. I can get all 4 doors off in about 20 minutes alone. Takes about 45 minutes to get them back on alone. Long story short, I don think there is an "easy" way to take them on and off. I think making half doors with some type of bolt on or snap on cover would be the only way to be able to go from open air to closed in a relatively easy and quick manner.
2fpower
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What did you use for the latch side?
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I do't now if your asking Brunt or me butI bought small bear claw latches from amazon.com.
how do you like those kelly safari tires?
thanks
thanks
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So far the tires work perfect. The traction on rocks is superb. The first time we ran the Rubicon, we aired down to 16 lbs. We dragged side walls all over the place (because of the 80 width) and no tears. The next time we aired down to 20 lbs, once again repeatedly squeezed the sidewalls in between tight rocks and no visable sidewall abuse. I pressure washed the mud off them yesterday and they still look like new( although the stock rims have all the paint scraped off the outer rim lips). L.B.
