yay for summer doors (80/800 tube doors, hinges)

Dboy

Dboy

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After my last wheeling trip I came in need of a new passenger door. (dang ninja trees) luckily ss2 had a spare one in really awesome shape in his undisclosed IH store-house.:winky: now as everyone knows the 800 door pins and screws can be a huge pain in the a$$. So I devised a way to fix both of those problems. First I went to fastenal and ordered some new hinge screws in the allen key variety along with some tapered star washers just like the originals, only better.

Fastenal part#33773 5/16" ctrsunk ext l/
part#24274 5/16-24x3/4

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24 of these with washers was 10bucks
little bit cheaper than here door hinge screw kit - International Scout parts - Scout II parts - your authorized IH lightline dealer

Getting out the old screws can be the biggest problem so do yourself a favor and get one of those hammer impact driver and put the end on an impact gun. Like this.

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And if they still wont come out, or if you strip the head try this.

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Once you get them out just replace with new.
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Now the hinge pins are another pain, I found the best way to get them out was to weld a nut on the top of the pin and twist it until it breaks, then find a punch that fits and beat it out the bottom. The pin is a 7mm pin, which the only thing I could find in a 7mm variety was drill rod. So I got a really good 5/16 drill bit and replaced the pins with 3 1/2" bolts.

Now ive got pins I can pull out and take the door on and off with ease. Which means its time for some tube doors:gringrin:

I made the door side of the hinge with some 3/16 plate and pieces of tube with a 5/16 inside diameter, then it was just pick a design and bend it up. Heres the finished product

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Latches to follow:gringrin:
 
michaeldimock said:
lookin good!:winky: I wonder if you could make something to work on the old latch/catch on your door.....
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You could, but the design I went with dosnt have the tube going far enough up on the jam, but you could easilly fix that with a few more bends.:gringrin:

another option would be to make "half doors" like ss2 has, youd just have to source two old doors (ive got abeat up passenger that you can have)
 
dboy said:
yeah, now ive got a passenger window that will go down, and for the summer the tube doors, so yelling instructions at me should be easier for you.:dita:
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All things considered and to your credit, you did a damn good job driving and following my direction even with the window up. Maybe we shouldn't mess with a good thing?:icon_mrgreen:
 
jayson said:
hey ss2 can ya post some pics of ur half doors im hacking some apart thanks
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Here you are. I do have a set of these for sale right now. Just in case yours don't turn out the way you want..:cornut:







Let me know if you have any questions.
 
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