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mgoose82
07-20-2008, 06:02 PM
ok so we all how how things happen to my truck when i get bored. so on wednesday night i got bored and choped my door hinges for removeable doors during my camping trip. it was great to not have doors again. but with kids in the truck, i didn't want them to fall out so i took it really easy. and i got pretty tippy at one point by myself and almost fell out of the truck (yes i know, "that's what seatbelts are for") so last night i started fabbing ( AGIAN ) and this is what i came up with.

here's the truck without the doors on it
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn8/gr8goose82/0720080851.jpg

here is the frame after a final test fitting
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn8/gr8goose82/0720080852.jpg

and here's the product for
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn8/gr8goose82/0720081603.jpg
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn8/gr8goose82/0720081603a.jpg

and yes i know they are blue,( i just didn't have enough of any other color so that is just temp)

and eventually i'm going to do the outside in solid diamond plating, i'm just waiting cause i may alter the desing of them a bit
ike
07-20-2008, 09:31 PM
looks good. With out trucks you dont want to go doorless, you want atleast a tube door in there as the doors are a big part of the cabs structural integraty.
Asha'man
07-20-2008, 11:42 PM
You HAVE to do an outer skin of some kind, as your truck now says "Wheelers Fo" on the passenger side, not sure about the driver's. :D
mgoose82
07-21-2008, 10:11 PM
yeah i'm gonna get some more paint and move the website to the bedside, that way it's still visible with the doors on or off
ike
07-21-2008, 11:11 PM
Just throw some skin on the tube doors and paint them up
mgoose82
07-21-2008, 11:35 PM
i can't do anymore welding until next month with the power bill and all. but i was planning on moving it anyway
ike
07-22-2008, 08:13 AM
I see.
Brandon
07-22-2008, 10:39 AM
looks good. With out trucks you dont want to go doorless, you want atleast a tube door in there as the doors are a big part of the cabs structural integraty.

I have yet to see a tube door that provided anything structural
Quick Draw
07-23-2008, 12:58 PM
Haha...yeah...they sit in there too loose to really keep the cab from flexing. And mine are commercially built!
ike
07-24-2008, 08:11 PM
I still would want them in, and i am sure they help out a shit load when you roll.
Opie011
07-27-2008, 10:12 AM
I agree that if you go no doors, you will need tube doors or a bar coming off an interior roll cage just for protection. Rock really don't forgive!!