Rick's Tube steel half doors

[Robb]

Is it just me or do Cory's doors seem a whole lot more beefier? Seems like in a roll type situation, just for things you may be rolling on to, you would want a little more steel there. Are the FST doors stronger than they appear? Or it that all you need?

Robb

 

[Rick]

His doors are made of larger diameter tubing. There will be more bracing in these when they are finished and they will be skinned which will help keep any objects outside of the drivers compartment.

I think they will do ok.

 

[asp84]

Don't Worry, Rick still hasn't run out of things to do. The EFI V8 Conversion and Fullsize Transmission are on his list next. In Due time!

Al

 

[rpenner54]

I was lucky enough to have my windows down when I rolled. If I had them up and I am sure I would still be picking glass out of my teeth. I had to bang the window channel back into place just to get the window back up.

I know my doors are coming off that much sooner now. I will probably get Rockstomper to fab me up some tube doors when I get down to the cage and cutting off the top.

 

[rpenner54]

Rick since the doors are not going back on what are your plans with the A/C??? You going to keep it or are you planning on converting it to an air pump?

 

[FAKRWEE]

Doors are looking good Rick. They'll look great when you get a skin over them. Are you going metal or canvas?

If I went to Arizona for a week do you think your guy's can take the measurements on the FAKRWEE and have them ready before I leave. Let me know.

 

[Rick]

They probably could Tom. Especially since you only have two doors.

I'm goign to use metal skins.

 

[Rick]

Latch Closed

 

[Rick]

Latch Open

 

[Rick]

Lifting on the "door handle" rotates the rod which activates the cam pulling the rod out of the tube. Kinda neat!

They are working on a few other things on my truck at the same time. I keep giving them more work. They added a few bars to the roll cage and I didn't like the positioningof the two horizontal tubes so I had them cut them out and redo it.

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These look good here, but they didn't tuck them close enough to the headliner for my taste.

Then I had them double the width of the rock sliders. Instead of one rectangular tube there are two welded together side by side to help keep the truck away from boulders. They were finishing those up while I was there today.

I think it should be on the road next week.

 

[mrboyle]

I like the way they made the latches retract. Simple, but probably took for ever to think of.

 

[Rick]

I was bored and photochopped some skins on my doors

 

[mrboyle]

Rick.
Quick question, a little off the subject though. Have you radiused your rear wheel wells at all? If so are there any pics of how you did it? I'm planning to swap to 33x10.5's on 15x8's withought adding any more lift and I was looking at the rear wheel wells and wondering if it was possible to get a little more clearence. I'm going with a set of Perry's fenders in the front so there won't be a clearence issue there, but I'm not sure about the rear.

 

[Rick]

I used an air cutoff tool to trim some metal from the front of the rear wheel wells. That's the only place I had any problem. If you look at the side shot you can kinda see where the edge is cut off.

 

[mrboyle]

Did you re-roll the lip or just leave it? Thanks for the info.

 

[410Fortune]

Rick, off topic question. Are you running a OEM safety glass type windshield or the Lexan bullet proof "Off road only" style? just cusrious. Doors look good, I like the latch too, great things are always simple.

I think some fiberglass door jamb inserts (ala EB) would finish that off perfectly, however you wouldnt be able to re-install your hard doors.

 

[Rick]

I'm running safety glass in the windshield. I don't want to get cut up to ribbons if I should ever God forbid go through the window...

I do have plans to eventually replace the rear side glass with Lexan though.

Here's a shot of the widened rock sliders. They were working on the braces for the doors when I left and it will be ready to go for a test run this weekend.

 

[Brian1]

Looking good rick. I still dont understand why they angle your rockslider ends in towards the body instead of away from it. Whats their reasoning behind that?

 

[Rick]

Just about done... just need the skins. I'm picking it up tomorrow though so I can play a bit this weekend.

 

[Rick]

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