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Door Hinges

Discussion in 'Early CJ5 and CJ6 Tech' started by ZipTy, Sep 29, 2005.

  1. ZipTy

    ZipTy Member

    I am needing some door hinges and was wondering where any one has gotten theres or if there is a cheap hardware store alternative.
     
  2. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    Door hinges for what sort of door?
     
  3. ZipTy

    ZipTy Member

    Soft Bestop doors.
     
  4. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    Supertop doors? You'll most likely have to get those from Bestop or 4WD Hardware or some other supplier of that ilk.

    If theyr'e Tigertop there are no hinges.
     
  5. blevisay

    blevisay Oh Noooooooooooooooo! Staff Member


    R2 hinges............
     
  6. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    Really? I've got a TigerTop that doesn't require any external hinges unlike my Whitco or MOP's Supertop.

    Nothing that "bolts on" as he's asking for unless you count the upper channel that the bead of fabric feeds into. I don't call that a hinge.
     
  7. Mcruff

    Mcruff Earlycj5 Machinist

    Screen doors, silly!:D

    Sparky seriously though the 4wd hardware catalog shows a tiger top and it looks to use the same hinges that are on the supertop for the early 5's, I can't swear to it but a good friend of mines Tiger top I'm pretty sure had hinges on it, it been along time ago but I swear it had hinges on it when we put it on.
     
  8. Boyink

    Boyink Super Moderator Staff Member

    I have upper hinges on my top...I think it's the equivalent of the Tiger top. Little tube / flat part that bolts to the w/s frame - works in conjunction with the channel on the w/s.
     
  9. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    I think I know what Boyink's talking about.

    My upper portion of the door has a hinge sorta thing now that I think about it. But not like what I'm thinking on a Supertop or Whitco.

    The bottom just sits in the hole in the door frame.

    There's not two hinges like MOP and I put on his 5 for the Supertop.
     
  10. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

  11. Boyink

    Boyink Super Moderator Staff Member

    The Supertop hinges are different to allow the doors to seperate into 1/2 doors. The door uppers don't attach to the Jeep, they just float.

    The Tigertop door uppers attach to the w/s frame using the channel and upper hinge that, with the "plug in the hole" design at the bottom, virtually guarantees body scratches and four letter words to install.
     
  12. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    So what if he means for hard doors for a Kelly hard top?
    Screen doors were an option on those? Learn something new everyday. ;)
     
  13. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    Yeah, I know, I had two peice soft doors on the TJ and helped MOP put his Supertop on. The Whitco doors are one piece but they have two lower hinges so they function like real doors should. Why they couldn't do that with the Tigertop. :rofl:

    I've only had the doors off Eugene once that I can recall, putting them back on wasn't fun as you implied.
     
  14. Mcruff

    Mcruff Earlycj5 Machinist

    Now that is cool, welp I learned something new today, I guess that means you can teach an old dog.:D
     
  15. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    And people still think we're a good source of information. R)